Top 100 Gracefully Quotes
#1. Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.
Amy Poehler
#2. Castles in the air bow gracefully; Well protected - A little dreaming in pink glasses - Behind every joyful morning is a magical awakening.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#3. I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
Elton John
#4. Circle me and the needle moves gracefully
Back and forth, if my heart was a compass you'd be North
Risk it all cause I'll catch you if you fall
Wherever you go, if my heart was a house you'd be home.
Owl City
#5. He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead
Catherine Anderson
#6. Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.
Aimee Mann
#7. In the first act get your principal character up a tree; in the second act, throw stones at him; in the third, get him down gracefully.
Anonymous
#8. It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.
Lisa J. Shultz
#9. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.
Ayn Rand
#10. I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
Neil Young
#11. There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
Victor Mature
#12. The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven
Richard Bach
#13. Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
Anne Sexton
#14. 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.
Edith Head
#15. Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene Brown
#17. I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
Patricia Briggs
#18. We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?
Ashton Applewhite
#19. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
Winston Churchill
#20. No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
#21. Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ...
James Thurber
#22. Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party!
Pawan Mishra
#23. You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
Roger Moore
#24. The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
Letitia Baldrige
#25. Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
John Steinbeck
#26. I was amazing," Dwayne squealed triumphantly as he landed gracefully in the middle of the room. "I did the meld and they bubbled and turned a lovely bluish-orange-green and then BOOM! The sound was incredible. Absolutely fabulous - like fornicating cats and Madonna.
Robyn Peterman
#27. You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. 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
#29. We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.
Swami Chetanananda
#32. We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
Billy Graham
#33. I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
Ted Danson
#34. Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.
Walter Scott
#35. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
E. M. Forster
#36. I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.
L.Joe
#37. Well, hell. It's been five years. Maybe she's learned to lose gracefully. Maybe she's out of practice." "Maybe trained monkeys will climb out of my ass and pour me a glass of Austershalin brandy," said Jean.
Scott Lynch
#39. Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
Elizabeth Taylor
#40. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.
Dan Pearce
#41. I could perform ballet in combat boots more gracefully than that, George said. But then, so could an elephant, so that's not really saying much, now is it?
Jenn McKinlay
#42. The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.
Ringo Starr
#43. Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully
Mia Farrow
#44. Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau
#46. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#47. Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
Margaret Mead
#48. For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Thomas Mann
#49. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
#50. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. Charlotte didn't care. She was floating away in a sea of happiness, wrapped up in the beauty of second love.
Lindsay Detwiler
#52. To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
Elspeth Huxley
#53. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)
Victoria Moran
#54. A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
John Allen Fraser
#56. It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.
David Levithan
#57. For instance: scorpions, vipers, and yellow jackets in paradise? How to accept gracefully the part of GOD that stings!
Alice Walker
#58. The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth ... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill
#60. Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.
Amisha Patel
#61. Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
Iris Apfel
#62. If you are not for us, then you are against us! One day we will be living alongside you in those mansions. Your choice. Share or lose it all. We're going to take Africa away from its colonial masters. Step aside gracefully, we'll let you stay. Fight us and we'll drive you out.
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
#63. I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.
Lisa Jey Davis
#64. Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#65. Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.
Irene Hunt
#66. I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.
Kim Wright
#67. One of the French lords says, "To lose gracefully is an art that every gentleman cultivates." "I hope to cultivate it too," he says. "If you see an example I might follow, please point it out.
Hilary Mantel
#68. You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing.
Lisa Jey Davis
#69. The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive
Enos Mills
#70. I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
Judy Parfitt
#71. One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
Alison Bechdel
#72. Being right is actually a very hard burden to be able to carry gracefully and humbly. That's why nobody likes to sit next to the kid in class who's right all the time. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
John Ortberg
#73. He explains that the salty smell of our meal had attracted them and to make his yaks move away from us, he empties a bag of salt further up the slope. Gracefully, the yaks walk away.
Gerda Pauler
#74. The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
Lydia M. Child
#75. Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.
Karen Gibbs
#76. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#77. They were struggling and often in quite a lot of pain and concern, but still, they were all right. I thought to myself as I looked around, 'What we're all doing is we're all managing gracefully.' [p.5]
Sylvia Boorstein
#78. Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish.
Sydney J. Harris
#79. she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people's sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick's coffin she began to weep, and her grief was strong enough to chase the sparrows from the trees.
Alice Hoffman
#81. I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings ... Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.
Thomm Quackenbush
#82. I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.
Robin Wright
#83. If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.
Lyman Abbott
#84. 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
#85. This set off a series of additional questions from Batty, which Iantha gracefully took on, giving Rosalind the chance to slip away unnoticed. She crossed the street to the Geigers' house, headed round to the back, and knocked on the kitchen door, just as she'd done a thousand times before.
Jeanne Birdsall
#86. It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A.A. Milne
#87. The rules of the game in Alabama politics is that no matter the provocation, no matter the justification, you take your whippings gracefully.
Bob Ingram
#88. Since I was Shy's old lady and my behaviour reflected on him, I backed down. But, since I was Tabby and he was Hound, I didn't do it gracefully.
"You're off my Christmas card list," I announced.
Kristen Ashley
#89. I want to protect myself from any further, darker memories of hers, get myself out of here gracefully before something embarrassing happens. She's balanced on the edge of an artificial hilarity that could topple over at any moment into its opposite, into tears and desperation.
Margaret Atwood
#90. I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.
Richard Dean Anderson
#91. There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.
Kathy Bryson
#92. Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
Thomas Huxley
#93. There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.
Nik Kershaw
#94. Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle
#95. ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while - all artists know this.
Greg Prato
#96. The way a bubble will float along gracefully and let every colour shine from within it until it suddenly bursts and is never to be seen again. Maybe that is the beauty of beauty. It does not last and therefore, forces us to appreciate it whilst we still can.
Amelia Mysko
#97. He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.
Rachel Vincent
#98. If we counted wrinkles as we do pages in a book, some of us are fast approaching "epic" status!
Jo Ann V. Glim
#99. You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
Viggo Mortensen
#100. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
Nikki Sixx
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