Older Quotes

There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

The nasheeds I do are for children, the youth, and for the older people.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

You don't get older, you get better.

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.