Top 1200 Growing Old Gracefully Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

I was first runner-up, and there is something to be said about losing gracefully.

The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing up.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old.

I am in love with dance and my parents accept that gracefully.

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

It's been so much fun for me here in Utah and growing up here, starting a family, growing from a basketball standpoint, growing from just a man standpoint.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

My mother has fabulous skin which she gracefully passed on to me.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I started cooking when I was growing up in Hyderabad, and I was already pretty decent when I was around seven years old.