Older Quotes

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.