Top 1200 Growing Old Gracefully Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I've met fans that are 9 months old to 90 years old.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

I think the reality is that, for me, real fur is extraordinarily old fashioned. I think you look old. Even if you're 20, and you've got a real fur coat, you just look like an old, unaware, unconscious being on the planet. It's not relevant, it's not sexy, it's not fashionable, and it's not cool.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you write songs for other 17-year-olds. We stopped growing musically when we were 17. We still write songs for 17-year-olds.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It's exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

I remember growing up and seeing Vanessa Hudgens' Bongo campaign in magazines. I think I probably put a few of her posters on my wall, to be honest. I wore Bongo growing up, as did my older sister - I would get her hand-me-downs as well as my own new pieces when I went shopping.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.' I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.