Ripe Old Age Quotes

#1. I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Diane Farr

#2. Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Ida Tarbell

#3. Given that there is every indication I'll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I'm dead, hopefully at the ripe old age of 98 like Grandma Sanders, an unreasonable number of cats seems to be the next logical step in my life.

Lindsey Stuffel

#4. Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like ... That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

Ben Mitchell

#5. IF ONE WISHES to live to a ripe old age, there are certain activities one should avoid. Chief among these is eating anything larger than one's own head - but not so very far down the list is any activity that involves clambering around the outside of a spaceship.

Charles Stross

#6. I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

Jane Green

#7. Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don't think you're special and the Lord's gonna bless you with time.

Jill S. Alexander

#8. My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

Gilbert Gottfried

#9. Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

Bobby Darin

#10. I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Debbie Harry

#11. I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

Lou Reed

#12. May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Mark Batterson

#13. At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her.

Karen Mahoney

#14. We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco De Quevedo

#15. He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.

Salman Rushdie

#16. My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

Kate Christensen

#17. I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Ashley Montagu

#18. I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

David McCullough

#19. I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

David Rubenstein

#20. Deke: 'You know what I'm wonderin'?'
Malachi: 'No, and to tell the truth, I don't care'
Deke: 'I'm wonderin' how you've managed to live to the ripe old age of 36, when it's a known fact that you've been brain-dead since birth'

'Strength of will', was the flat reply

Lynn Turner

#21. I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Huey Lewis

#22. So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

John Milton

#23. The Bachelor meets Nightmare on Elm Street,

Siobhan Davis

#24. I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe
But now I'm alone in an empty room
Staring down immaculate doom
Messy

Gayle Forman

#25. Maybe He's already given you a miracle. You just can't see it.

Rachelle Ayala

#26. Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of

Mary Balogh

#27. Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

Wendell Berry

#28. Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.

David Brin

#29. That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

Rian Johnson

#30. A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Stephen King

#31. I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Bret Michaels

#32. Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

#33. And you go on toward your ocean, the cigar biting your lips the way love used to.

Charles Bukowski

#34. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

Harold Bloom

#35. Bulgarian phrase zryala vuzrast, ripe age, which they use for the period before one is truly old. She

Garth Greenwell

#36. If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Samuel Butler

#38. Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Jim Butcher

#39. As long as you can't imagine it, as long as you can't see it, it is not going to happen for you.

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