John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden quotes

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.”
-- John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

#Parent Quotes #Aging Quotes

“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.”
“I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.93, Thomas Nelson
“If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds”
“When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.”
“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres
“If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95
“Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.”
“I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies”
“I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.”

Source : "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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