Quotes About Getting Older And Growing Up

#1. I held you in the square
And felt the evening
Re-order itself around
Your smile.

Ben Okri

#2. I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

Demi Lovato

#3. In France, it is only permissible to admire statues but tropical countries have no such prejudices, and the emergent Oriental in me took full account of the admirable proportions and the harmony of the movements of the acrobat on the stage.

Jean Lorrain

#4. I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Jon Hamm

#5. Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Henri Nouwen

#6. Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

Naomi Jackson

#7. Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

King Tuff

#9. I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

Joanna Lumley

#10. When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

Lauren Conrad

#11. I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.

Jaime Murray

#12. Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Sherrod Brown

#13. Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

Steve Gleason

#14. It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

Abbas Kiarostami

#15. Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

Billy Cannon

#16. Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Andy Griffith

#17. I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

Jeff Lindsay

#18. Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?

Claire McClennan

#19. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

Josh Duhamel

#20. You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

Mike Carey

#21. What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

Saffron Burrows

#22. You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Kim Dong Hwa

#23. he rolled Jesco down to the ground and pushed

Jordan Reece

#24. I was born when my dad was 50 ... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

Gary Gulman

#25. Let excellence be your brand ... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

Oprah Winfrey

#26. As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

Haruki Murakami

#27. That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

Margaret Atwood

#28. The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Pete Townshend

#29. And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

John Hutton

#30. Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

Stephen Covey

#31. Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you'll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

Paul Shepheard

#32. You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Jean Thompson

#33. In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older ... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

Holly Hunter