Top 1200 Growing Old Gracefully Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a job, replanting a forest, insulating the attic, destroying old farm equipment, employing Native Americans, commuting to work by bicycle - but only if the bike is regularly used for a substantial portion of travel - or buying a plug-in hybrid sports car, or buying a recreational vehicle. I mean there are hundreds of them, and most of them are nuts.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

The old men know when an old man dies.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

I think that initially all I wanted to do was work as an actress, and then, as I started to work more consistently, you start to maybe want to challenge yourself in different ways, so I think it's something that developed over time - this desire to direct and also to produce. I think as you watch other actresses do it so successfully and so gracefully, you're like, I think that would be fun! It's definitely something that has become more of a priority for me.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

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.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

When we spoke about workplaces in 1972 we mainly were referring to old-line manufacturing firms, on the one hand, and Main St. shops and restaurants, on the other. Both of those categories are now insignificant in terms of employment. Today, the economy is dominated by the rapidly growing Low-Cost Operators - national discount and mall chain stores, fast food franchises and supermarkets - which offer employees low salaries, few benefits and little training.

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

Back when I was growing up, gangs wasn't heavy. We was solo thugging. When we got money on our own, the hood got money. It wasn't about colors or a certain name when I was growing up. We wasn't doing no gangs. But as the generations change, things change.

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

My brothers and sisters have achieved so much in their lives and have had so much success, but I'm just 17, so I'm still growing and learning. Since I have grown up on the West Coast, it definitely is different than all of them growing up on the East Coast. It's a different lifestyle, obviously, California vs. New York.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.