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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about age, olderness, faith, life

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man...

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about people, old, olderness, world, man

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate:...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about literature, woman, writers, numbers, mother, old, olderness

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about books, age, olderness, world

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about opinion, good, good luck, age, olderness

You can be young without money but you can't be old...

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about money, old, olderness, contentment

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very...

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Quote by Harrison Ford about work, age, olderness, man

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten...

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Quote by Harrison Ford about age, contentment

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Quote by Robert Frost about opinion, birthday, age, olderness, woman, man

I had my fun years ago. When you're older, you think...

I had my fun years ago. When you're older, you think about when you didn't have a care in the world. From 20 to 24, it was wild.

Quote by Kylie Minogue about truth, contentment, world

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about opinion, old, vice, americans, beauty, character, age, olderness, people

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about olderness, age, old

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and...

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about bad, old, olderness, death, man

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as...

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about nature, hope, old, olderness, man

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about olderness, age, old, sadness, man, fear, death

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about film, age, olderness, contentment

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone...

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

Quote by Knut Hamsun about olderness, age, old

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which...

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about prejudice, old, olderness, thinking

They say eyes clear with age.

They say eyes clear with age.

Quote by Philip Larkin about philosophy, eyes, age, olderness

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart about war, cowardice, proudness, death, man, youth, hate, fight, old, olderness

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