Retired Person Quotes

#1. The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.

Greg LeMond

#3. Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

Fred Rogers

#4. I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

Donnie Wahlberg

#5. Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

Markus Zusak

#6. Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Virgil

#7. Oh you only think you know all I know. I don't even know what all I know. Half the time I just make it up, and it still turns out to be true! We learned that trick in the fifties. Tomorrow,

Tony Kushner

#8. As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

Alma Adams

#9. Life provides ample opportunity to test our mettle. When circumstances call for it, let's give ourselves a break and ask for help.

Gina Greenlee

#10. I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

Steve Scott

#11. Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

Dashiell Hammett

#12. There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

J.M. Coetzee

#13. If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

Peter Steele

#14. What do you think about America?"
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

Donna Tartt