Retired Quotes - Page 18

• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When you become 70, you can't deny that you're on the downhill. But I keep doing what I've been doing. If I retired, what would I do? I'd brood about my kids and I'd play around with my investments, which would probably cost me.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Kids, Investment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I miss football, but I'm not done. I'm not retired or anything, I just know my worth. Once it's clear that the NFL isn't considering your worth, then you get a better picture of what's really important and what you should put your energy and time into.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Football, Missing, Important

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the number of people who just walk out of their lives when the weather gets unbearable is astronomic. He said the police prepare themselves for it - for a huge rise in the instances of missing persons. People choose to disappear when it's hot. It was fascinating.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Interesting, Perspective, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.

  Walter Kiechel

  Teaching, School, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't do anything for the money. I don't need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn't matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.

  Rob Zombie

  Zombie, Niche

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Wall, Growing Up, Ivy

  "Rebooting Philanthropy in Silicon Valley". Interview with Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Buddhist, Practice

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Night, Silence

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• Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

  Pat Toomay

  Football, Grateful, Athlete

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• The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

  Mario Cuomo

  Children, Pain, Struggle

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

  Alma Adams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

  Tony Benn

  House, Politics, Politician

  In Observer 4 Feb. 1962

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• What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

  Samuel Beckett

  Country, Heart, Bills

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.168, Faber & Faber

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• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Government, Parades

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• People do not retire. They are retired by others.

  Duke Ellington

  People, Age, Aging

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

  Lauryn Hill

  Reality, People, Needs

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• Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

  Joey Barton

  Player, English History, Legends

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• I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Moving, Together

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