Quotes About 50 Year Olds

#1. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Christopher McDougall

#2. Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

Andy Stanley

#3. If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds ... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Kevin Bacon

#4. There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

Carine Roitfeld

#5. By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

Wayne Gretzky

#6. The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

Ian McEwan

#7. He said it like tumbling, like if he didn't get it out quickly enough, we'd both fall apart. But weren't we doing that already?

Jodi Meadows

#8. Being scared is practice for being scared.

Simon Holt

#9. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?"
"Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.

Marissa Meyer

#11. She opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

Jeff Lindsay

#12. She didn't understand a thing about Catholics. It's all praise Mary, she said, women doing all the hard work and letting men run the church and calling the shots for everyone.

Amy Bloom

#13. I have found that of the Seven Dwarfs, Six are not Happy.

Dennis Cogswell

#14. Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

#16. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.

Ellen Gilchrist

#17. I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.

Lauren Kate

#18. I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

Kajol