Old
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It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it — young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous — is changed by it.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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