Top 100 Older Than Sayings
#1. I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
Lorde
#2. They give an "X" rating to flicks
Where sex is the center of kicks,
While violence and war
Are considered fit for
Small children no older than six.
Norman W. Storer
#3. I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind?
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
Pattie Boyd
#6. Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.
Diplo
#7. I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
Breckin Meyer
#8. Today is older than tomorrow,that is the power of the present
ABC
#9. Only, it's not an it. It's a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She's older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise sort of pretty in a melancholy way.
Charles Yu
#10. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#11. In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
#12. I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.
Jane Asher
#13. Even the people I surround myself with ... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
Kim Kardashian
#14. Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#15. It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.
Kenneth Branagh
#16. I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.
David Crosby
#17. You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven't said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he -
Henrik Ibsen
#18. If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.
Richard Powers
#19. When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
Brandi Carlile
#20. My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
R. Tripp Evans
#21. It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures ...
Lee Wulff
#22. I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'
Caroll Spinney
#23. My cousin. His name is Abel. He is two years older than I. Next to my father, he is dearest to my heart.
Celia Mcmahon
#24. Call him Judas if you want
but he did it for reasons
much older than silver.
Toby Barlow
#25. Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
Gelett Burgess
#26. When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.
Elizabeth Hurley
#27. God sent me a woman who was an older woman - who wasn't much older than me but she was older in the sense (of her relationship with) the Lord ... She started guiding me. She was very much a model for my life.
Patricia Mauceri
#28. At one point, a man who looked not much older than me said that though he loved his family, he'd never felt like he belonged. "Maybe it's not them, and it's not their fault," he said. "Maybe it's me.
Victoria Patterson
#29. How old are you Cam?" "Old as my tongue, bit older than my teeth," he says with a shrug and looks away from me.
Lesley Jones
#30. I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
Ian Hislop
#31. My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.
Gina Barreca
#32. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams
Dan Davin
#34. Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
Anna Quindlen
#35. Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know except her.
Mohammed Hanif
#36. From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is "made out." And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.
Mindy Kaling
#37. The Indian was a gentleman named Sequoyah, somewhat older than the young Wilsons and their friends. He nodded soberly to Jamie, and swinging the bundle off his shoulder, laid it on the ground at Jamie's feet, saying something in Cherokee.
Diana Gabaldon
#38. The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
Konrad Lorenz
#39. By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#41. There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.
George Burns
#42. If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em. Even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.
Louis C.K.
#43. I recalled an economics professor in Fujian who spoke to me of China's inevitable return to the top of the world order. It was just a matter of time.
"I have teapots older than your country," the professor said, sipping his tea. "And they're /very/ sturdy teapots.
Alex Tizon
#44. I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.
Johnny Marr
#45. Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
Neil Gaiman
#46. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
#47. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#48. You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.
Jamais Cascio
#49. He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.
Marjorie M. Liu
#50. Music and symbols, they're older than human race.
Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.
Toba Beta
#51. We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.
Seth Rogen
#52. Younger than she should have been, older than any child should ever need to be.
Seanan McGuire
#53. We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings.
John Trudell
#54. We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
Tana French
#55. To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
Mario Batali
#57. Some instinct older than civilization was telling her to run, to flee.
She didn't move.
L.J.Smith
#58. I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Selma Blair
#59. The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
Wynton Marsalis
#60. It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
Zooey Deschanel
#61. Avian was home and made me feel secure and right. Everything felt okay when I was with Avian. But at the same time, he was still so much older than I was. And he would be tied to Eden in such a permanent way.
Keary Taylor
#62. I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev
#63. Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
Anthony Holden
#64. I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
Daniel Radcliffe
#65. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended.
Haruki Murakami
#66. Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.
Joe Torre
#67. I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.
Jimmy Smith
#68. They'd had this conversation in the cafeteria. They were waiting by the door so that Georgie could casually get in line behind Jay Anselmo, who was two years older than they were, really into No Doubt and competitive car stereos, and who would undoubtedly ignore her. What's
Rainbow Rowell
#69. Two years older than me, but he's [Dust] one of those guys who you known is an old soul the moment you meet him.
Katie McGarry
#70. I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
Alice Hoffman
#71. Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
Gaspard Ulliel
#72. My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.
Aeriel Miranda
#73. Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
Robert Benchley
#74. You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.
Lesley Gore
#75. Scarlet ... " Silas begins in a serious tone. He started using "the tone" when we were kids to remind me that he's older than I am. It annoys me just as much now as it did then, only now it's less acceptable for me to push him into the mud for it.
Jackson Pearce
#76. Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way.
Alexander McCall Smith
#77. He saw her eyes staring back at him. Those deep blue eyes, which seemed so much older than the body they inhabited. Her eyes were locked with his. There was a connection between them. He saw her pain and he felt it, too. He wanted to cry for her.
Jason Medina
#78. It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940.
W. H. Auden
#80. I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.
James Walsh
#81. They think that I am a lot younger than I am. Everyone who meets me is always like, "Oh, are you the youngest sister?" "No, I'm older than Hillary." I think it's just because I have never really played older than myself or even my own age yet.
Haylie Duff
#82. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
James Joyce
#83. Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.
Gail Carson Levine
#84. Yes, he chuckles. "Im a couple years older than her."
"Mommy is thirty", Josie informed him. "She's really, really old."
"Are you older than the Empire State Building?" Maddie asks with awe in her little voice and I cover my mouth so I don't laugh out loud.
Kristen Proby
#85. I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.
Mario Testino
#86. I say, Peter," whispered Edmund. "Look at those carvings on the walls. Don't they look old? And yet we're older than that. When we were last here, they hadn't been made."
"Yes," said Peter. "That makes one think.
C.S. Lewis
#87. I am older than your age and younger than your body.
Santosh Kalwar
#88. I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.
Bill Maher
#89. Pete and Repeat, huh? Which one are you?"
"Repeat of course. He's a day older than me. I came after him." - Kai and Andy
H.R. Willaston
#90. We do not start any change. We are part of it.
Something older than us had triggered change.
Toba Beta
#91. When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
Natasha Lyonne
#92. You can feel it deep in your bones because it's older than your senses: the end of winter, the Earth sliding toward Spring.
Rick Yancey
#93. But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
Sigmund Freud
#95. Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, when a formless universe existed in a state of chaotic un-creation, lacking awareness even of itself.
Justin Cronin
#96. I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
Kim Kardashian
#97. Joaquin was almost ten years older than me, born in Philadelphia, and possessed a swagger that seemed unearned, considering he was wearing a FUCKING FEDORA.
Lena Dunham
#99. One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#100. MacMillian narrowed his eyes at the man in the fedora. Neither he nor his friend looked a day older than nineteen, at most. "You're a ... minister?"
The man's lips twitched. "Of sorts.
Laura Oliva
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