Grown Old Quotes

35 quotes by 29 authors

• People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and… — Phillips Brooks
• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
• You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't… — Saint Augustine
• When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even… — Samuel Ullman
• To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have… — Albert Einstein
• But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit… — Charlie LeDuff
• Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
• What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process,… — Joko Beck
• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the… — John Cowper Powys
• Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For… — Epicurus
• They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;… — Samuel Johnson
• When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same. — Steve Coogan
• Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe. — Chris Van Allsburg
• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though… — Robert R. McCammon
• Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have… — Alice Neel
• When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then,… — Samuel Ullman
• Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo

Who Wrote These Grown Old Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 35 Grown Old Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Grown Old Quotes by Epicurus
• 2 Grown Old Quotes by Samuel Ullman
• 2 Grown Old Quotes by Chris Van Allsburg
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Christina Rossetti
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Bill Clinton
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Aldyna Threesya
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Consequences
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Bonnie Raitt
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Spido
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Billie Joe Armstrong
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Phillips Brooks
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Charlie LeDuff
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Joko Beck
• 1 Grown Old Quote by John Cowper Powys
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Steve Coogan
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Grown Old Quote by Robert R. McCammon