Top 1200 Growing Old Gracefully Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

Growing up, my uncle used to always have dogs, and we always had a dog growing up. I couldn't remember a time when I never had a dog. It was part of the family. So once I actually got old enough, I got a dog in college, then I felt he needed a friend, so I got another dog. They just started adding up from there.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

With Rascal Flatts, I'm such a fan of them, and I feel like they've been so gracefully relevant through decades of country music.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

I love growing old and if I get good work playing women of my age and talk about their issues and lives, I am happiest doing that.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

When I was 9 years old, growing up in Denver in the 1960s, I'd spend hours listening to my friend's mother's record collection.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

My mom played me all kinds of music, from Ella Fitzgerald to Celine Dion. I listened to everything growing up, old and new.

My parents felt old-fashioned, growing up - they were quite disciplinarian. We went to church and had to learn music, but in hindsight it was a good thing.

I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.

There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

Every kid growing up who takes to boxing, their goal is to win a belt. I've been doing this since I was eight years old.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

I love entertaining old school. It's how I feel the most comfortable, because it's what I experienced growing up.

We're not going to be the fastest-growing or the biggest. I think there's plenty of room for a little old sandwich shop like ours.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.