Top 100 Older Than Sayings
#1. We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.
Cameron Diaz
#2. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Tori Amos
#3. Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you - the same way it hunted down your ancestors.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#4. This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
Taron Egerton
#5. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.
Christopher Page
#6. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.
Jaffe Cohen
#7. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
Graham Greene
#8. I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.
Billie Piper
#9. Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
Frank Iero
#11. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#12. I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
Rita Dove
#13. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#14. The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.
Ben Stephenson
#15. As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.
Charles Duhigg
#16. One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.
Colleen Atwood
#17. It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Woody Norris
#18. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
W. H. Auden
#20. Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
Chris Robinson
#21. In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
Delia Ephron
#22. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#23. My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
Madeleine Peyroux
#24. I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.
Hugh Panaro
#25. He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn.
Jack London
#26. I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.
Christopher Buckley
#27. 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
#28. My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.
Matt Czuchry
#29. I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
Tony Danza
#30. I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
Joanne Harris
#31. In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger!
Isabel Allende
#32. I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
Nicole Trunfio
#33. My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
Pierce Brosnan
#34. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#35. I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.
Anna Friel
#36. When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
Imogen Cunningham
#37. He was an Atlantean ... older than dirt and dirt's great-grandfather.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.
Florence Welch
#39. Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.
Raquel Cepeda
#40. Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.
David Mitchell
#41. Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow
Nas
#42. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
Alain De Botton
#43. I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.
Henry Ford
#44. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.
Rick Strassman
#45. Gokudera: Anyway I don't like that guy.
Tsuna: Huh? Why not?
Gokudera: Anyone older than me is my enemy.
Tsuna: [shocked - thinking to himself] God! That's alot of enemies!
Akira Amano
#46. Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.
Clark Ashton Smith
#47. Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.
Claire LaZebnik
#48. He was younger than Iseult had imagined. No older than twenty, if she had to guess. Yet he felt old, with his voice so gruff. His language so formal.
It was in the way he carried himself too, as if he'd walked for a thousand years and planned to walk a thousand more.
Susan Dennard
#50. I absolutely get more comfortable in my body and my skin as I get older, more than when I was in my 20s
Jennifer Aniston
#51. As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself."
She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!
Neal Shusterman
#52. As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.
Mary E. Pearson
#53. There's an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she's older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn't gone through what I've gone through.
Zoe Cruz
#54. People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five ... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
Rita Moreno
#55. Jaxton hadn't changed, but he had. Maybe his old crush still hated him, but it shouldn't
matter anymore. It didn't matter anymore. He was older, wiser and he had moved on. Jaxton
was nothing more than an old high school crush.
Elaine White
#56. If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan
#57. We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.
Robert Nathan
#58. 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
#59. I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.
Ali Smith
#60. As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was hardly any difference between them. A man of 45 had seemed to me older than this old dodderer of 65 seemed now. I was 45 myself. It frightened me.
George Orwell
#61. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.
Carrie Underwood
#62. You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
Christopher Plummer
#63. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.
Katharine Graham
#64. That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
L.M. Montgomery
#65. Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.
Marcel Carne
#66. Women were beyond me.
they saw something
depraved.
there was one waitress
a little older than
I, she rather smiled,
lingered when she
brought my
coffee.
that was plenty for
me, that was
enough.
- Young in New Orleans
Charles Bukowski
#67. Indeed," Fowler answered. He turned and looked at Tony critically. "I say, old man, but you're not much older than that German kid."
Yeah," Tony grinned. "But I'm from Texas and meaner than a junkyard bulldog. Makes a difference, you know.
Robert L. Wise
#68. I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#69. I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.
Mike O'Malley
#70. I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.
John Boyne
#71. As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.
Thomas Watson
#72. Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Lois Wyse
#73. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Moby
#74. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)
Victoria Moran
#75. Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.
Bill Hicks
#76. The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#77. I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
Jill Sobule
#78. Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was.
Lauren Dane
#79. My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. 'Listen,' he said, 'life and no escape.
Anne Carson
#80. I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
Mike White
#81. There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet
#82. My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Jacques Pepin
#83. Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.
Mike Gray
#84. Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.
Darcey Bussell
#85. There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists ...
Derrick Jensen
#86. I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes
#87. I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.
Michael Ondaatje
#88. And girls are much more mature." Eve nodded wisely. "So you're about ten years older than Shane, then.
Rachel Caine
#89. I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.
Annette Bening
#90. Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. My bus is in flames My son is older than me Please, Zeus, make it stop
Rick Riordan
#92. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.
Margaret Atwood
#93. THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER.
Louise Fitzhugh
#94. Ours is a spiritual bond I treasure, something deep and strong, and older than time. We are, in essence, the same person, two sides to one coin. Death unites us.
J.D. Robb
#95. Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child."
Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me."
- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)
Richelle Mead
#96. We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
S. Jay Olshansky
#97. The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather
than learn more.
I. J. Good
#98. He might be older than hr, but her hormones didn't care. No, they screamed 'fuck yeah, let's ride.' Her nipples tightened and she thanked God she'd worn a bra that morning. Talk about embarrassing if that was the first thing he's see.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#99. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Andre Agassi
#100. Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
Naveen Andrews
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