Quotes About Being Eighty

#1. The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Jean Reno

#2. The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

Claude C. Hopkins

#3. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

Harry Connick Jr.

#4. Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

Kim Wilde

#5. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Emily Bronte

#6. Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

Billy Wilder

#7. Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ... so liars beware

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

John Lautner

#10. He frequently observed, as he walked out, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he stood in a shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.

Jane Austen

#11. Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

David Steinberg

#12. Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.

Stella Young

#13. To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

Jan Struther

#14. Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Donna Karan

#15. A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Carl Jung

#16. I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Octavia E. Butler

#17. The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

Mark Steel

#18. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.

Samantha Young