Top 100 Quotes About Old You
#2. If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
#3. You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
S. Jay Olshansky
#4. It does not matter how old you are, whenever God calls you, you must begin to work toward fulfilling that calling
Sunday Adelaja
#5. There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you.
Donald E. Westlake
#6. Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
#7. No matter how old you are, there's no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you.
Brandi Glanville
#8. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing. It's whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.
David Byrne
#10. Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
Theodore F. Green
#11. When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck.
Peter James West
#13. When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.
Walter Mosley
#14. I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
Joss Whedon
#15. To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.
Lulu
#16. As long as you're delivering God's message, don't worry about how old you are. When you open that Bible, you're over two thousand years old!
Warren W. Wiersbe
#18. The water doesn't know how old you are.
Dara Torres
#19. Mine each experience for treasure,
and by the time you are old you will be rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. It doesn't matter how old you get. A hug from your mother always helps.
Lilliana Anderson
#21. Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
#22. Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder
no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
Candace Bushnell
#23. In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#25. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.
Steve Kluger
#26. I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"
Michael J. Fox
#27. If you're 30 years old, you have your whole life ahead of you.
Sherry Argov
#28. Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'
Eric Shanteau
#29. I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.
Olivia Newton-John
#30. We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.
Lloyd Jones
#31. Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.
Edgar Cayce
#32. As you grow older, you start to realize that your parents have lives of their own, separate from you, but by that time your parents have formed the habit of keeping you out of their lives, and no matter how old you get they will never let you get to really know them.
Noah Cicero
#33. When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.
Wes Anderson
#34. Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!
Red Buttons
#35. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#36. If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.
Randy Newman
#37. I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
Rachel Nichols
#38. Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
John Waters
#39. No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
Lynn Johnston
#40. Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
Jodi Picoult
#41. Grandma shrugged. "Framed. A man that pretty can't be a murderer." Mother stared at her. "Penelope, I'm seventy-two years old. You let me enjoy my fantasy.
Ilona Andrews
#42. LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.
David Foster Wallace
#43. When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
I. F. Stone
#44. For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.
Hanif Kureishi
#45. After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
Sandra Bullock
#46. Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Jane Wiedlin
#47. When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
Tom Wopat
#48. Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
Nick Hornby
#49. A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
Alan Kay
#50. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
Kathryn Stockett
#52. It doesn't matter how old you are, what level of schooling you've had or where you live - stalking is innate to the female psyche. We've all been there.
Kristan Higgins
#53. People don't forget what it is to be loved. No matter how young or old you are, or for how long you had it, you always remember what it is to feel loved.
Melinda Salisbury
#54. No matter how old you get, no matter how far you've strayed, a mother can always see right through you.
Kyra Dune
#55. Today I found out how old you are ... and that you don't like being hand-cuffed.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#56. Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!
Bryce Harper
#57. No matter how old you are, an empty wrapping paper tube is still a light saber.
Russ
#58. I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.
Matt Barr
#59. The power of the unknown fact hit me like a bolt of lightning, that maybe, my father did care about me after all, and I realized another true thing that day: the love of a father is invaluable; regardless of how old you become, or how many bridges you cross in life
Sara Niles
#60. I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.
Mira Nair
#61. When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Garrison Keillor
#62. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
George Carlin
#63. You know, when you were three years old, you got lost in the woods and we found you with your head in a foxes den. Sometimes I think very little has changed. I mean, you be a bit taller.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#64. It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.
Jules Renard
#65. When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#66. When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.
Chuck Feeney
#67. You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.
Doug Stanhope
#68. People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#69. They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
Karen White
#70. Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Alan Alda
#71. I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
Valerie June
#72. Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."
Bradley Whitford
#73. You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong ... "
"Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
John Grisham
#74. No matter how old you are, you always want your mother's love and acceptance. I guess I'm hoping one day I'll get it back.
Hilary Grossman
#75. You're perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you're small you think that about your parents. When you're old, you think that about your kids. You'll see.
Cristina Alger
#76. When you're young, you say what you feel.
When you're adult, you speak what you think.
When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.
Toba Beta
#77. Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called
Sunday Adelaja
#78. You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.
Jay Adams
#79. That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.
Jack LaLanne
#80. On the other hand, it's like we're three years old. You don't want that scruffy old teddy bear until your friend takes it and starts having a good time with it. Then suddenly it's the cutest bear you've ever seen, and you want to get it away from her.
E. Lockhart
#81. Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
Rick Reilly
#82. You'll always be beautiful to me, no matter how old you are, and you can remind me of that when you're ninety, because if I'm still around I know I'll still feel the same.'
-Forgotten, Susan Lewis
Susan Lewis
#83. Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.
Robbie Coltraine
#84. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#85. It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck ... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.
Mark Cuban
#86. No matter how old you get, you're always capable of surprising yourself.
Lisa Kleypas
#87. It doesn't matter how old you are.
It does matter how much you care.
Debasish Mridha
#88. No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone ... you answer it.
Dave Chappelle
#89. I'm not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.
Riley Hart
#90. Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
Emma Donoghue
#91. I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn't matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I'm never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy.
Cote De Pablo
#92. The sun didn't illuminate me! When you are old, you remain in shadow, even when you have wit.
Italo Svevo
#93. Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#94. When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you've lived your billionth second.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#95. Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don't get let you know exactly where you're at, where you're headed and where you can never go again.
Jim Lynch
#96. If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
#97. After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
George Lucas
#98. Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
Mark Twain
#99. It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.
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