Top 100 Quotes About Older Age
#1. I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
Leona Lewis
#2. I've learned in my older age that sexy gets you further than brains.
Bill Engvall
#3. Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.
Ellen Galinsky
#4. As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
Matt Kuchar
#5. Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.
Sinister Publications
#6. Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
Stephen King
#7. In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
Lance Bass
#8. Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Rick Warren
#9. 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly
#10. Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.
Vivek Wadhwa
#11. Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David Bowie
#12. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#13. My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#15. Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders - FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Chila Woychik
#16. 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
#17. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#18. We die at a very young age, but sometimes don't realise it until we're much older
Steven Aitchison
#19. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
H. Rider Haggard
#20. Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]
Anne Lamott
#21. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#23. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#24. I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
Alice Waters
#25. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#26. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#27. But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..
James Joyce
#28. Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
Ann Brashares
#29. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
Anthony Browne
#31. I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
Tina Fey
#32. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Caryl Rivers
#33. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Terraine Francois
#34. I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!
Betty White
#35. Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow
Nas
#37. People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five ... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
Rita Moreno
#38. I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea
#39. We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.
Robert Nathan
#40. Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
Laurence J. Peter
#41. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#42. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
#43. It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
Monica Bellucci
#44. Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#45. 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
#46. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
Erica Goros
#47. Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.
Pat Conroy
#48. As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#49. Want to forget that you're growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.
Toni Sorenson
#50. As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
Jenna Morasca
#51. Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
John Wagner
#52. I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.
Alison Lohman
#53. Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.
Peter Bull
#54. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
Robin Caldwell
#55. The fact that a child that age was allowed to go out looking for the four-legged serial killer that the king has dispatched his personal gun-bearer to track down speaks of an older, hands-off parenting style.
Sarah Vowell
#56. There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet
#57. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
Cher
#58. The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it ...
James A. Murphy
#59. What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.
Tommy Wallach
#61. The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.
Jerry Barber
#62. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.
Margaret Atwood
#63. The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
Judy Greer
#64. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Andre Agassi
#65. The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
Shimon Peres
#66. I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#67. She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years.
Hugh Howey
#68. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
Junior Seau
#70. Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
A.S. Byatt
#71. What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older ...
Mohsin Hamid
#72. If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
Ani DiFranco
#73. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.
Jane Hirshfield
#74. I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.
Irene Cara
#76. I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Lauren Groff
#77. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
J.K. Rowling
#78. I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
(As quoted in Put Your Big Girl Panties on and Deal with it, Roz Van Meter, 2007)
Susan Sarandon
#79. Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.
Charles D'Ambrosio
#80. We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.
Rebecca Stead
#81. I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.
Sofia Vergara
#82. To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#83. Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
Jeffrey Kluger
#84. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
Andy Gibb
#85. I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.
Amy Neftzger
#86. 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
#87. As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
Helen Mirren
#88. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
Dalai Lama
#89. I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
David McCullough
#90. If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.
Ronnie Musgrove
#91. As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
Mickey Rourke
#92. You're very old, aren't you?"
"Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Philippa Pearce
#93. In 1790, the average age of first menstruation for European girls was just about eighteen, almost fifty percent older than today.
Howard Means
#94. Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy.
Billy Graham
#95. I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
Rufus Wainwright
#96. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
#98. I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
Fran Lebowitz
#99. Sometimes she teased me that she'd eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now, with that determined glint in her eyes and the confidence in her voice, I could almost believe her
Rick Riordan
#100. The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
Diane Von Furstenberg
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