Older Quotes
2953 Older quotes by 2161 unique authors
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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to…
— Pierre Loti
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As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
— Robert Bly
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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I…
— Alan Hovhaness
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I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
— Annette Bening
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I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
— Lizzie Borden
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
— Douglass North
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My major influence was my ten years older sister.
— Willa Ford
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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
— Steve Case
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I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the…
— Alexander Kotov
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Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all…
— Anna Neagle
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Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to…
— Jock Sturges
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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to…
— William Maxwell
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When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun.…
— Steve Almond
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I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you get to an…
— Jonathan Horton
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The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
— Tia Mowry
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than…
— Tom G. Palmer
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
— Basil Rathbone
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I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant…
— Christopher Buckley
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Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters,…
— Craig Kielburger
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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get…
— Scott Ian
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had…
— Pierre Loti
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People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred…
— Pam Houston
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One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to…
— Sebastian Horsley
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