Top 100 Older I Grow Quotes
#1. The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel
Swami Vivekananda
#2. The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)
Emily Dickinson
#5. The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#6. The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant ... There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
H.L. Mencken
#7. I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Agatha Christie
#8. The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.
Storm Jameson
#9. The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Ellen Glasgow
#10. The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.
Vivian Gornick
#11. 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
#12. The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
Emily Dickinson
#13. I stop painting entirely. I get a job in advertising. I get older. I grow up, I suppose. I never look back except in those moments when I can't stop fucking thinking about it.
Jami Attenberg
#14. The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Germain G. Glidden
#15. The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken
#16. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Booker T. Washington
#17. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
Willa Cather
#18. The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
Katherine Dunham
#19. With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
Tess Gerritsen
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a lot more things but I just become more pathetic. Is this what it's like to grow old?
Cheon Eunbi
#23. I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.
George Sarton
#25. Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger".
"That is because you are older, little one" answered he.
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".
C.S. Lewis
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
Taylor Swift
#31. 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
#32. Im thankful for this moment coz i know that i grow a day older and see how this sentimental fool can be
Dee Lestari
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. There are points in time when you grow older than your parents. Or come up on them at least. I look at my father, who's shrinking before my eyes, and realize no one will save me. No one can save me.
Amy McNamara
#42. I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.
Tom Welling
#43. 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
#44. The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
Dorothy Day
#45. I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Frank Shorter
#46. 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
#47. I swear, kids don't grow a little every day. They save it up. One morning you wake up to a brand-new, much older kid.
Kelly Luce
#48. I want to believe that things sometimes matter. I want to believe that what we had when we were children we can still have when we grow older. That there are some things in life that are worth holding on to.
Ashley Cowger
#49. I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.
Lucy Hale
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
Terry Pratchett
#53. The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
Yolanda Adams
#54. I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Terry Brooks
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
Oprah Winfrey
#62. The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Bai
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?
David Nichols
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.
Alek Wek
#78. I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.
Danielle Panabaker
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
Michael Longley
#93. Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.
Elizabeth Olsen
#94. I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
Alan Hansen
#95. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get ... the more everything just turns to shit.
Brian K. Vaughan
#99. 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
#100. 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
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