Retired Quotes - Page 7

• A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Nfl, League, Guy

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• He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

  Peyton Manning

  Sports, Pride, Player

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.

  Sue Grafton

  Reality, Law Enforcement, Cop

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

  Munir Butt

  Selfish, Games, Hustle And Bustle

  Countryside Alliance Magazine interview, 2006.

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• I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

  Bill Nighy

  Dark, Thinking, Two

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• Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

  Diane Keaton

  Retirement, Sunset, Mean

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Style, Expansion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs

  Hanshan

  Karma, Night, Worry

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• The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.

  Sumner Slichter

  Cutting, Men, Years

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• As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mind, Body, Admittance

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Flower, Giving

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• I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.

  Mike Royer

  Friday, Art, Monday

  "HomeInterviews Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Years, November

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Thinking, Would Be

  "Woody Allen Discusses "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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• The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

  Charles Taylor Manatt

  Retirement, Party, Way

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Elderly

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  Retirement, New York, Thinking

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• Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

  William Banting

  Men, Order, Years

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.10

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