Older Quotes
2953 Older quotes by 2161 unique authors
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
— John Sebastian
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He…
— Dakota Fanning
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When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a…
— Cheon Eunbi
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It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown…
— Henry Twells
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The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
— Brian Sibley
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The older I get, the more I feel
— Sharon Olds
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but…
— Earl Warren
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be…
— Archibald Geikie
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted…
— Paul Feyerabend
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This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of…
— Joseph John Thomson
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It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on.…
— Jackie Huggins
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I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as…
— Aarti Mann
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My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who…
— Ana Ortiz
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If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because…
— Portia de Rossi
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The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.
— Rita Rudner
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
— William James
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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
— Milton Berle
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the…
— Albert Einstein
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many…
— Gerd R. Puin
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This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid…
— Lena Dunham
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At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
— Winston Groom
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My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being…
— Karl Popper
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