Older Quotes
2953 Older quotes by 2161 unique authors
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
— Lance Bass
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As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I…
— Chris Ware
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ...…
— Mary McCarthy
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Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.
— Paulo Coelho
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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and…
— Sylvia Plath
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My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked…
— Frank Iero
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The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get…
— Mark Hoppus
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Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I…
— Jim Butcher
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We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
— Cesar Romero
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I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment,…
— Marvin Hamlisch
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The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it,…
— John Lennon
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Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among…
— Barney Frank
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At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can…
— Michelle Kwan
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When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again -…
— Elvis Stojko
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No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors,…
— Richard G. Scott
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I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very…
— Steve Wozniak
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There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session.…
— Mindy Kaling
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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
— Toni Morrison
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I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living…
— Edward Abbey
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use…
— Judy Blume
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Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
— Nick Tosches
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We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
— John Trudell
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At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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