Growing Old Quotes
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.
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I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
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Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.
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Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
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All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.
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Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.
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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.
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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
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For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.
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You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
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How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.
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