Quotes About Life Growing Older

#1. I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

Caroline Leavitt

#2. Keeping my smile raised like a shield between us, I curtsied and quit the room.

Rachel Hartman

#3. 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

#4. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. I was very close with my mother growing up. I have four older sisters who were an important part of my life. And I've been very close to all the women I've dated. I feel most comfortable around women.

Jamie Johnson

#6. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. 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

#9. I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Meryl Streep

#10. Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

Dane DeHaan

#11. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Colum McCann

#12. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Flannery O'Connor

#14. The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

Chris Evans

#15. When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#16. I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

Tom Morello

#17. I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

Les Wexner

#18. Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Bonnie Hunt

#19. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.

Olivia Culpo

#20. Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

T.K. Naliaka

#21. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen

#22. To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Regina Brett

#23. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...

Maud Hart Lovelace

#24. 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

#25. Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Shelley Noble

#26. 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

#27. Want to forget that you're growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.

Toni Sorenson

#28. 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

#29. I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

Angelina Jolie

#30. Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Neil Gaiman

#31. I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

#32. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#33. The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old.

Dan Groat

#34. My girl is talented, Noah said.
My heart stopped beating.

Michelle Hodkin

#35. The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but they just as strongly opposed special subsidies and monopoly privileges conveyed by government to business or to any other group.

Murray Rothbard

#36. Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

Tristan Prettyman