Famous Quotes: Old

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
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Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
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It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
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Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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