Quotes with years-old

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 1807.

  • William Blake When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Barbara Mikulski When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Caroline Lawrence When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Amartya Sen When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Maris When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bill Walton When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ruth Gordon When you finally learn how to act, you're too old for the good parts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Bobby Locke When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
    Bobby Locke
     
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  • William Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Callie Khouri When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Joyce Carol Oates When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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