Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.
Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.
The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.
At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
I imagine I'll retire mid-performance. I'll say, 'Sorry, everyone, I can't do this anymore. I must have suddenly aged.' Then I'll walk off. Yes, I'm sure that's how.
I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off.
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.
I've always said golf can be a turn-off - all those middle-aged men in bad jumpers. I want to be a bit more of a character.
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.
I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.
There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.
One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.
For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.
I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.
The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
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