Growing old Quote by Aslı E. Perker Download Open image ““While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.”” — Aslı E. Perker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing old Parenting
“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“I always intended to grow up with my kids, not old with them.” — Trevor David Dawson Copy Share Image
“If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Don't grow up too fast, Darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never, ever grow old.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I get from reading in bad light – A kind of measles of the spirit A mumps of the psyche, A disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking… — Billy Collins Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she shed to… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. — George Clooney Copy Share
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share
