Over 50 Quotes

• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  80 Copy quote
• 

  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  166 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

  163 Copy quote

• When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

  Michelle Shocked

  Growing Up, Want, Grows

  Song: When I Grow Up, Album: Short Sharp Shocked

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Jobs, Sex

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  195 Copy quote

  Show source

• Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Agency, Government

  39 Copy quote

• I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

  George Karl

  Basketball, Running, Reality

  6 Copy quote

• In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.

  Sandy Carter

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Long, Authority

  4 Copy quote

• One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

  David Sills

  Two, Numbers, People

  11 Copy quote

• Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.

  Davy Jones

  Boys, People, Racing

  12 Copy quote

• There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Sex, Criminals

  8 Copy quote

• Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

  Keith Henson

  Children, Wife, Young

  4 Copy quote

• Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.

  Richard Dooling

  Mother, Children, Sick

  "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Home, Garden

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

  5 Copy quote

• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  Joan Collins

  Eden, Lists, Actresses

  16 Copy quote

• If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.

  Nancy Pearl

  Book, Reading, Years

  7 Copy quote

• I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Law

  16 Copy quote

• You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

  Henry Ford

  Birthday, Running, Men

  7 Copy quote

• I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."

  Eddie Izzard

  Fake People, Years, Alive

  5 Copy quote

• This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

  George H. W. Bush

  Independent, Years, Government

  4 Copy quote

• Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.

  James Spann

  Mistake, Men, Pockets

  7 Copy quote

• I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

  Donald Sutherland

  Jobs, Years, People

  8 Copy quote

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  Arthur Ashe

  Children, Pain, Play

  72 Copy quote