Quotes with 50-year-old

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bjork Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bria Skonberg People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Billy Corgan People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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