Older Quotes

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

Young people are still looking and older people have found.

Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

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.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

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.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

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

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

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.

As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

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.

I imagine 'Daily Grace' as, like, your awkward older sister who tries to give you advice.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

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.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

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

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.