Retired Quotes

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.