Quotes of: Growing-old Keyword

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Sophocles

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

Matsuo Basho

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Natalie Imbruglia

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Ben Folds

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Jean Rhys

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.

Judy Parfitt

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

Chinua Achebe

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

Ed Koch

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Henri Matisse

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Interview with the Vampire

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

The Dhammapada

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

Amy Grant

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. ...

Tabatha Coffey

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

Shaun White