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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.
Anyone can use these sites — companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
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.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
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.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.
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