Top 100 Grow Older Quotes
#1. Diane, what does it mean when you know you're feeling something but you don't know what that feeling is?" Diane considered this seriously for a long time. "It means you're growing older." "I never grow older." "I guess we all thought that once.
Joseph Fink
#2. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
#3. Today is a black day. Tomorrow it may be white. You may look beautiful one day, and not the next. It is not only a matter of other people's perceptions, it's about our own perceptions. We constantly change. Every day our hair grows, our nails grow, we grow older. Everything ends.
Chloe Thurlow
#4. I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option ... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.
Gwen Stefani
#5. I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.
Alek Wek
#6. Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older.
Debasish Mridha
#7. As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.
Joy Williams
#8. Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#10. As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
P.G. Wodehouse
#11. 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
#12. It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Hector Hugh Munro
#14. Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
Hans Zinsser
#15. 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
#16. Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#17. All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.
Madeleine L'Engle
#18. In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
Usher
#19. As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott
#20. Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!
Charles Dickens
#22. 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
#23. As you grow older, you start to realize that your parents have lives of their own, separate from you, but by that time your parents have formed the habit of keeping you out of their lives, and no matter how old you get they will never let you get to really know them.
Noah Cicero
#24. 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
#25. Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini
#26. 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
#27. As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
Andy Goldsworthy
#28. 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
#29. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
#30. When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again.
Julian Barnes
#31. I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#32. 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
#33. As you grow older, you become faced with the problem of what to with your time
Sunday Adelaja
#34. No one seems to consider that even people who are thought to be intellectually impaired can change as they grow older.
Martin Pistorius
#35. Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B.C. Forbes
#36. You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli
#37. As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Solomon Burke
#38. I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
Michael Longley
#39. Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.
Kay Boyle
#40. Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
Marianne Williamson
#41. And the most extraordinary thing is that, in the end, as you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer-lasting and more frequent than the other.
Guy Fournier
#42. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#43. Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
Sarah Addison Allen
#44. 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
#45. As you grow older; keeping warm becomes more important than looking good.
Ulysses Brave
#46. Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
James Jones
#47. For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#48. As we grow older all is too explainable, the capacity to invent pleasurable alarm recedes: too bad, a pity - throughout our lives we ought to believe in ghost hotels.
Truman Capote
#49. Intensity of belief is diluted with age. But perhaps wisdom is in seeing our own failures, how we misdirected our energies? Nothing is entirely pure or sacred or certain as we grow older.
Adib Khan
#50. It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
Veruschka Von Lehndorff
#51. You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.
John Cleese
#52. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.
Abby Wambach
#54. A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.
Marisa Berenson
#55. As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
Robert Genn
#56. 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
#57. Parents begin by loving their children; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Sol Stein
#58. 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
#60. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
#61. The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#62. I never grow older." "I guess we all thought that once." The desert went on so far out into the distance that it was easy to imagine that it constituted the entire world.
Joseph Fink
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
Sigmund Freud
#66. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#67. When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
Park Chan-wook
#68. And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
Andre Aciman
#69. We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.
Mary Balogh
#70. As you grow older, don't let the changing colour of your clothes compensate for the brilliance of your character.
Myself
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
William Hazlitt
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Susan Glaspell
#79. When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
Deborah Kerr
#80. Almost every kid asks, "Why is the sky blue?" That's only one of the 40,000 questions that the typical child asks between the ages of two and five. After that age, the number of questions that children ask drops off dramatically as they grow older.
Anonymous
#81. Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man's sunsets.
Billy Graham
#82. Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
Paul J. McAuley
#83. Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
Blanche Lincoln
#84. One doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.
Patricia Moyes
#85. As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#86. You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.
Yannick Murphy
#87. What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#88. You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
Olivia Wilde
#89. Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side.
Stephen King
#90. It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
Tom Hardy
#94. 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
#95. Evil lives in the dark. We instinctively know it as children, but as we grow older we allow reason to cloud our judgement
Charity Parkerson
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.
Dorothy Koomson
#100. 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
