Quotes About Becoming Older

#1. As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

Alan Alda

#2. I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#3. I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

Kirk Hammett

#4. Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

Jack Nicholson

#5. Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Hans Selye

#6. 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

#7. As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.

Bobby Lee

#8. It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

Francia Raisa

#9. Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

Tim Wise

#11. 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

#12. You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Joan Collins

#13. I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Lord Dunsany

#14. When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

Jon Brion

#15. The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

Nick Cave

#16. Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

Robin Morgan

#17. -just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

V.C. Andrews

#18. As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.

Steve Maraboli

#19. I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

Alexandra Bracken

#20. Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Paulette Alden

#21. The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

Ingrid Michaelson

#22. Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#23. Men do not change. They unmask themselves.

Germaine De Stael

#24. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

#25. As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

Charles Duhigg

#26. Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Grant Achatz

#27. But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

Jacqueline Woodson

#28. In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

Nick Cave

#29. As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

Deborah Bull

#30. The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Andrew Davies

#31. I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.

Pam Bachorz

#32. I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

Lena Dunham

#33. I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.

Tony Harrison

#34. Look back to learn how to look forward.

Joe Girard

#35. I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.

Rhys Ifans