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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics — I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
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