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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Nature abhors the old.
Growing old is not growing up.
Growing older doesnt bother me.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
But time growing old teaches all things.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.
I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I've still got, but losing the memory is another matter.
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
I think believing in eternal love or growing old together, people might think is a bit old fashioned. I am bit old fashioned, and I truly believe that it can happen provided that you do find the correct person.
No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
