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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. — Cher

You're never too old to grow up. — Shirley Conran

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley

There is no difference between growing old and living. — Laurenti Magesa

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life! — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out. — Donna Lynn Hope

And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old... — Richard Powers

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting. — David Joy

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud. — Ian Somerhalder

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old. — Joseph Hergesheimer

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end. — Theodore Roethke

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying. — Raven Moore

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up. — Herman Wouk

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old. — Craig Wilson

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. — Bassem Youssef

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her — John Green

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was too much magic in the world to become bitter and jaded and growing up didn't have to mean growing old. — Lili Valente

When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt. — Donna Lynn Hope

The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did. — Toni Morrison

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. — Gail Sheehy

Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore — J.M. Barrie

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old. — Benjamin Franklin

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. — Josh Billings

Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'. — Rashmi Bansal

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. — Joseph Campbell

The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to. — Carew Papritz

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. — Jean Rhys

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. — Regina Brett

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can. — Elizabeth Gillies

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job. — Paul Leautaud

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid. — Billy Bob Thornton

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. — Robert Bridges

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old? — Megan Shepherd

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go
cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other. — Ava Gardner

Growing old is not for sissies. — Emilie Richards

Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or — Stella Rheingold

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. — Malcolm Cowley

it feels so scary getting old. — Lorde

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold. — Max De Pree

The most important thing is growing old gracefully. — Audrey Hepburn

I'm growing old, Ernest, and I find myself enjoying the company of young men more and more. — Lev A.C. Rosen

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking? — Ann Benjamin

This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds. — Matsuo Basho

She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip. — Joseph Fink

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym. — Roy Peter Clark

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age. — E.W. Howe

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged. — Jennifer Stone

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. — Kathe Kollwitz

Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen — Margo Vader

Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable. — Mark Dilworth

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think. — Will Leitch

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. — Dexter Palmer

Look, moon
I turned silver for you. — Sanober Khan

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up. — Maya Angelou

Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself. — Harper Lee

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold. — Daniel Johnston

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me. — Matthew Healy

If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old. — Carew Papritz

Never complain about growing old ... Some never have the privilege. — Mark Hart

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. — George Wald

You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you. — Vivian Gornick

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning

In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman. — Abigail George

I wanna make growing old with you
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids. — Fred Gipson

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith. — Amy Neftzger

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. — Michael Caine

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old. — Cole Hauser

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. — Billy Graham

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell

Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second. — Brent Weeks

But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death.the strange
And ignominious end of old
Dead folk! — Adelaide Crapsey

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort. — Richard Blake

It's no fun growing old, no fun at all. The drawers where you store memories get harder to open. — Haruki Murakami

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly? — Henri Nouwen

One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face. — Mercedes Lackey

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. — Andre Maurois

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated — Darren Hayes

We don't just grow old. We become old when we stop growing. — Sue Ziang

Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age. — Terry Teachout

But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. — Debasish Mridha

Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides — George R. Stewart

The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie) — Dan Carruthers