Senior Quotes - Page 5

• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Spring, School

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• Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish
  Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed
  himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and
  has lived selflessly for the art

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Way, Figures

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• You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

  Jimmy Connors

  Years, Six, Remember

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• Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Attitude, Power

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• I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

  Janet Fitch

  Teacher, Writing, Kids

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• I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

  Ed Rollins

  Thinking, Years, President

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• Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

  Eric Burdon

  Growing Up, Heart, Past

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• I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

  Catherine Ashton

  Jobs, Men, Europe

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Hurt, People, Cost

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• Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

  Jim Gerlach

  Drug, Low Income, Cost

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• Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

  John Garamendi

  Law, Promise, President

  "The Fiscal Cliff Can’t Be Solved by Throwing Seniors Over the Cliff" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, People, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

  Doug Flutie

  School, Thinking, Ohio

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• When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Malta, Prom, Happenings

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• In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

  Tony Visconti

  Jobs, New York, Father

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• Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

  John B. Larson

  Coins, Half, Flip

  "Five Things to Know About the GOP Plan for Medicare" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

  John Terry

  Kids, Player, Helping

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  William Weld

  Years, Income, Citizens

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• Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

  Jay Weatherill

  Strong, Grace, Roles

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• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  Larry Wilcox

  Father, Integrity, Character

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

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• I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

  Robert Morse

  People, Clubs, Wells

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

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• I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Thinking, Player

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• "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  School, Kids, Years

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Teacher, Tired, Kids

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• I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Learning, Years

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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