Sentences with phrase «to a ripe old age»

It seems I'm now at the age (ripe old age of 26 and 2 weeks) where I should have my own private health insurance.

And with so many of our loved ones reaching ripe old ages, we've turned as a society to the care of third - party professionals: nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Though advances in modern veterinary medicine and canine nutrition have assisted owners with seeing their dogs live into ripe old age, the unfortunate fact is that at some point our dogs will die.

I started feeding my cats this food over 13 years ago, and they have both lived to ripe old ages with no health issues.

I feel I've earned the right to stay in 5 star hotels at my very ripe old age.

Provided you look after it during your life the brain will serve you well into ripe old age.

However, we do know that at least a proportion of cats who have been trapped, neuter, returned, fed and monitored live long lives, are able to perform normal cat behaviors and die at ripe old ages of the same diseases that finally kill our companion cats.

@ReligionIs4Dolts - Are you claiming at some level that all those ppl would have lived on to a peaceful and ripe old age if their had been no religions?

Generations of childless rats are living to ripe old age as their overall numbers plummet thanks to new contraceptive baits

Peacock passed away in 1896 at the then ripe old age of 75.

Instead of Roy Lichtenstein's Mickey, one gets the artist, who unlike Mickey may not live to so ripe an old age.

Next it's important to note that this tsunami of pre-retirees will live to a considerably ripe old age; 65 is damn near the new middle age.

Whereas some fish, turtles or even invertebrates can become hundreds of years old, the neon pygmy goby — a small fish — reaches ripe old age at only 60 days.

Certain mutations in daf - 2 allow worms to wriggle into ripe old ages that greatly exceed those of their normal counterparts.

Or do you take bathroom breaks just to restore circulation to your chilled hands, get home with a sore back and feel the looming specter of carpal tunnel syndrome at the ripe old age of 28?

By the ripe old age of 34, McInerney had risen to head J.P. Morgan Chase's consumer - banking division, overseeing 76,000 employees and becoming the youngest member of the megabank's executive committee.

But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.

In a world where apps like Snapchat (whose founder is the ripe old age of 26) and Uber (whose No. 2 executive is all of 33) can achieve seemingly overnight success, what's to stop someone in the ranks of Gen Z from creating the next big thing?

I started my first business at the ripe old age of 25.

60 Minutes» longtime resident curmudgeon, Andy Rooney, died last month at the ripe old age of 92.

She has the experience, having worked with the esteemed IMG as a model since 2016 and helping her parents with their production pursuits since the ripe old age of 12.

At the ripe old age of 13, Forbes was already a biz - mag granddaddy.

******* Mrs. BITA immigrated to the U.S. at the ripe old age of 30 and is on track to retire early at the age of 42.

And Chris Young strokes his hand and says there there friend, don't cry, we can save your career, your career will live to a ripe old age.

You can never bankrupt student loans, and no one tells you when you sign up for them at the ripe old age of 18 that you are going to be paying more than your mortgage for your education for at least a decade after...

Like an organ donor's death allowing someone else to live a longer, healthier life, RadioShack's (NYSE: RSHCQ) bankruptcy filing could help Sprint (NYSE: S) live to a ripe old age.

Warren Buffett's Biography After getting his MBA in 1951 from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business at the ripe old age of 21, Buffett worked at various investment firms, though he's known more for his focus on the insurance business than any particular affiliation with a major Wall Street firm.

When I became a professional bond investor at the ripe old age of 38 in 1998, it was the opposite — almost all bonds traded at premiums, and had relatively high coupons.

Many a man would be happy to have lived to the ripe old age of 89.

And it does seem that some people have lived charmed lives, they are born into great families who have guided them, given them every opportunity to succeed, have good health, and live to a ripe old age, while others are born into poverty with lousy parents and live miserable lives.

As part of my studies in college, I had read the Kinsey studies about how common homosexual experiences were among straight men — and I fancied myself something of a sophisticate at the ripe old age of 21.

Well that and the fact that the virgin Mary was impregnated at the ripe old age of 12.

«for Jesus to actually preach against the State would have meant immediate death» Yes, he might have been crucified instead of living to a ripe old age.

Wild sheep can do an affective job of keeping predators at bay all by themselves, and some can live to a ripe old age, while it is a certainty that no sheep survived being roasted under the shepherd's «protection».

A rapacious man prospers, a generous man suffers tragedy; needed people die young, worthless scoundrels reach a ripe old age; some children are blessed from birth, others are cursed with idiocy or disease; of two families of like quality and conduct, one experiences habitual good fortune, the other continuous adversity.

He lived to a ripe old age, but there is no record of his last days.

Called to preach in 2006 at a ripe old age, and so I am trying to do the Lords work befor I get to the 6th bed and he decides he has had enough, time to go.

I smiled and allowed as how I had always heard that the good die young and I was sure she would live to a ripe old age.

Kristen Kish started as Lynch's mentee and went on to win Top Chef Season 10 at the ripe old age of 29 (my current age, sigh).

Would you believe that I thought I hated kiwis until the ripe old age of 25?

He had a good life and lived to the ripe old age of 83.

However, as the recipient of «the talk» at the ripe old age if 19 (no, you didn't misread that), the awkwardness was compounded by the need to gently inform my mother that, no, she does not need to explain the particulars to me.

I've always done it — since I made my first cake at the ripe old age of seven.