As I Grow Older Quotes

#1. Understanding the materials I work with ... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Andy Goldsworthy

#2. I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver

Pat Williams

#3. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#5. I find I need less sleep as I grow older, and I am grown very old. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday.

George R R Martin

#6. I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

Emile Zola

#7. As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

Peter Ustinov

#9. As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

Susan Glaspell

#10. I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

Michael Tolcher

#12. I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

Joyce Carol Oates

#13. As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.

Dennis Quaid

#14. I do love you, my Florence. Will you always be so sensible?"
"No. I quite expect to become very silly as I grow older. Everyone seems to.

A.S. Byatt

#15. As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

Park Chan-wook

#16. Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more.

Diane Kruger

#17. 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

#18. As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

H. Rider Haggard

#19. I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

Ogden Nash

#20. I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Sasha Cohen

#21. I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Banana Yoshimoto

#23. As I grow older I am unpleasantly impressed by the fact that giving each human being but one life is a bad scheme.

H.L. Mencken

#24. I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Maeve Binchy

#25. I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

Frank Shorter

#26. You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

Elton John

#27. As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

Apolo Ohno

#28. As I grow older, I appreciate things that I didn't appreciate much when I was younger. I am thankful more than I used to be. I've been reasonably healthy, and I feel blessed. And each morning I can think, this is going to be a good day!

John Wooden

#29. I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans ... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Edward Abbey

#30. As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Karen DeCrow

#31. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

#32. I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

Corey Taylor

#34. I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

Michael Longley

#35. Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

Julie Andrews

#36. I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.

Sophia Loren

#37. As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.

Umberto Eco

#39. I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

Donna Air

#40. I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

James McAvoy

#41. I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait

Hugh Laurie

#42. I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

Justin Bieber

#43. It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

Todd McFarlane

#44. When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

#45. I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Diana Quick

#46. I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

Abby Wambach

#47. I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

Rachel Stevens

#48. I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

Erin O'Connor

#49. I think this is what real love is like.. Wanting to be together as they grow older.

Minzy

#50. It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

Robertson Davies

#51. I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

Dorothy Koomson

#52. Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

Rosanne Cash

#53. But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

George Saintsbury

#54. With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

Hope Solo

#55. I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

Len Goodman

#56. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.

Olivia Culpo

#57. I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#58. Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

Dean Wareham

#59. My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

George Sarton

#60. As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#61. What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#62. I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

Steve Martin

#63. I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Taylor Swift

#64. As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Sania Mirza

#65. I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

Clint Eastwood

#66. As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

Henry Rollins

#67. People change as they get older ... grow wiser, make better decisions ... i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way ... things they did in the past ... things they wish they'd done differently.

Kate Morton

#68. And what did I think
when I was small
and why did I forget?
And what else will I forget
when I grow older?
And if you forget
is it as if
it never happened?
Will none of the things
you saw or thought or dreamed
matter?

Sharon Creech

#69. I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#70. I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

Douglas Coupland

#71. Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Andy Serkis

#72. From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

Jane Hamilton

#73. I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Terry Brooks

#74. Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

Roger Angell

#75. This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

Anna Quindlen

#76. Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

Cate Blanchett

#77. I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#78. If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

J.L. Carr

#79. I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

Martin Scorsese

#80. When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

Robert Smith