Retiring Quotes - Page 13

• I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

  David Beckham

  Sports, Running, Past

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

  Doug Flutie

  Feels

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• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Artist, Devil, Popular Song

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• I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Long, Needs

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• Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Photographer

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

  Tanya Tucker

  Long, People, Want

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• This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

  Herman Edwards

  Sports, Winning, Play

  "PRO FOOTBALL; Edwards's Take on Jets: Quitting Is Never an Option". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Mistake, Athlete

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• It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Southern, Brain

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Would Be, Prime, Ministers

  "Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative" by Amy Clark, www.cbsnews.com. July 22, 2006.

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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Modesty, Fidelity

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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• I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

  Alan Shearer

  Blood, Play, Clubs

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Black, Intellectual, Facts

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

  Joseph Pilates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

  Martin Fleischmann

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• Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

  Ted Trueblood

  Running, Opportunity, Vacation

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• Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Wall, People, Mad

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• Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

  Anne McLellan

  Ideas, Pension, No Idea

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• The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

  Frederik Pohl

  New Day, Development, Four

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• Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the
  contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a
  like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their
  gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Christian, Time

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.29, Gardenvisit.com

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• Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

  Tim McIlrath

  Lexicon, Entitled, Slurs

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• Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Ambition, My Ambition

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• If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

  Tom T. Hall

  Attitude, Journey, Watches

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