Older Quotes

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.

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

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

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.

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.

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

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

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

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Growing older doesnt bother me.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

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.

I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

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

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

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

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

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.