Growing Older Quotes

Growing Older Quote of the day

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

Growing older doesnt bother me.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.