Retired Quotes

• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  

  John Milton
  • Pleasure
  • Leisure
  • Gardens

• Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • Trash
  • Skis
  • Landfills

• The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

  

  George Washington
  • Business
  • Together
  • Paper

• If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Forever
  • Body
  • Creating

• The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • God
  • Business
  • Theory

• When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Years
  • Felt
  • Retired

• It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

  

  Michael East
  • Athlete
  • Probably
  • Years Ago

• I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Enough
  • Havens
  • Prerogative

• I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Coaching
  • Ownership
  • Broadcasting

• I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Football
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Retired

• I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

  

  Fauja Singh
  • Able
  • Retired
  • Spiritually

• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brain

• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Home
  • Book
  • Mother

• I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

  

  George Washington
  • Satisfaction
  • Solitary
  • Retired

• I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

  

  Bart Cummings
  • Time
  • Bored
  • Retired

• I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • School
  • Age
  • Mean

• I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

  

  Bill Murray
  • Retired
  • Couple of times

• Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • War
  • Choices
  • Dangerous

• I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Doors
  • Retired

• Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

  

  Evelyn Ashford
  • People
  • Running
  • Feels

• I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me, so I retired. I will never box again because I went 2 years and no one would fight me at all, zero. That's when I started training fighters.

  

  Ann Wolfe
  • Fighting
  • Sleep
  • Training

• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • Movies
  • Following
  • Stopped

• You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”

  

  Azadeh Moaveni
  • Home
  • Books
  • Retired

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