#retiring

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. ↗

— Gail Devers

#after #always #away #games #i

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#expected #give #great #gymnastics #i

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. ↗

— Ted Knight

#could #course #crazy #drive #i

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#end #fire #fun #inside #kind

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ↗

— Milton Berle

#company #dollars #million #quarter #retiring

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring. ↗

— James Herriot

#consider #fall #farm #fellow #field

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. ↗

— Aaron Peirsol

#i #old #retiring #still #strange

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress