As I Get Older I Realise Quotes

#1. Discipline is consistency of action.

James C. Collins

#2. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#3. We die at a very young age, but sometimes don't realise it until we're much older

Steven Aitchison

#4. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Val Kilmer

#5. As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Jamie Cullum

#6. Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don't get it out there, if people don't know about it, you have nothing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Michel Legrand

#8. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Jermain Defoe

#9. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Leslie Mann

#10. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.

Lionel Suggs

#11. It's not until you're older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Sara Sheridan

#12. When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

#13. To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

Sophocles

#14. So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

#15. She clearly had some deep scars and should be easy to walk away from, but instead of running the other direction I wanted to scoop her up, clean her off and make her world good again.

Beth Ehemann

#16. I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Joe Cocker

#17. Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

Alex James

#18. There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.

Tracey Emin

#19. I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.

Andie MacDowell

#20. When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on.

Nicolas Barreau

#21. I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Adora Svitak

#22. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

Idina Menzel

#23. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.

Reese Witherspoon

#24. If you don't show, I'm likely to do something foolish, like throw myself at Aluc-

Victoria Schwab

#25. I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.

Graham Speechley

#26. The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance ... has helped to determine your path through life.

Rowan Atkinson

#27. Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

Cesar Millan

#28. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tina Turner

#29. As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

Victoria Legrand

#30. In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

David Haye

#31. The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

William C. Bryant

#32. Personally, I would rather have a boy notice the book I was reading and tell me he liked it, too. That seems like a better sign of caring about someone than a kiss some French guy invented.

Karen Harrington

#33. It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Frank A. Clark

#34. I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

Rebecca Ferguson

#35. That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Stephen Bayley

#36. Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Viggo Mortensen

#37. Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

Henry Rollins

#38. I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

Halle Berry

#39. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

Caroline Blackwood

#40. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.

Conn Iggulden

#41. As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Rumer Willis