Older People Quotes - Page 6

• Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

  Mabel Cheung

  Daughter, Mother, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Love You, People, Looks

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I liked experimenting with a lot of different styles. So, it always saddens me when I see young people, or even older people for that matter, who are limited to one specific type of music. They don't really allow themselves to experience so many types of music out there that are so wonderful to listen to. And there's good parts and bad parts, I guess, to all of them.

  Travis Tritt

  People, Style, Different

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• It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Past, Rocks

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• Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Running, Dog, Cat

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• The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.

  Bill Cosby

  Beautiful, Dad, Cutting

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• We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mother, Children, Book

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• I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation.

  Eugene Green

  Maturity, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

  Justin Bieber

  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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• Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

  Black Elk

  Children, Native American, Heart

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Boys, People

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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• Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, People, Ifs

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• People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Thinking, People

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• It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Kids, Black And White, Thinking

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• What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Teacher, Responsibility

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.111, Penguin

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• When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Kids, Thinking

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• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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• Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Marijuana, Impact

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• I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

  Bob Hope

  People, Age, Aging

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• Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Hurt, Passion

  "Bob Dylan Dropped Some Serious Wisdom on 35 Million AARP Members" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

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