Top 100 Quotes About The Older I Get
#1. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#2. The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
#3. The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
John Burnside
#5. The older I get, the less I care about what's cool. I realize I'm old and weird.
Aesop Rock
#6. The older I get, the more my parents just seem like absolute heroes to me
Nick Offerman
#7. I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
Damon Albarn
#8. I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
Sylvester Stallone
#9. I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
Brandon Flowers
#10. Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
#11. The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.
Miuccia Prada
#12. The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!
Rick Riordan
#13. I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge ... in this medulla oblongata.
Shaquille O'Neal
#14. The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
Billy Graham
#15. I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.
Jay Baruchel
#16. The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.
Brian Dennehy
#17. I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
James Purefoy
#18. I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"
Serena Williams
#19. The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.
Joseph Raffael
#20. The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.
Tommy Lee
#21. The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.
Peter Capaldi
#22. The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.
Steve Vai
#24. I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.
Andre Benjamin
#25. The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.
Michael Card
#26. Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#27. I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'
Jude Law
#28. I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.
Michael Kors
#29. It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
Paul Newman
#30. The older I get, the better I used to be.
R.A. Long
#31. The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
#32. At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
Janis Ian
#33. The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes.
Dana Gould
#34. Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.
Ray Winstone
#35. I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.
J. Robbins
#36. The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'
Michelle Gomez
#37. I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.
K.d. Lang
#38. The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
Doris Lessing
#39. I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#40. The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. The older I get the funnier I get ... Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.
Linda Martin
#42. I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.
Bruce Gilden
#43. 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
#44. The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
#45. I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.
Sean Price
#46. The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
Gillian Cross
#47. The older I get, the less I am bothered by talk like that. I have total faith in my coach [Yohan Blake], total faith.
Usain Bolt
#48. The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.
Scott Foley
#49. The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
Edward De Bono
#50. Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.
Martin Donovan
#52. The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.
Paula Patton
#53. The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.
James Badge Dale
#55. I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.
Esai Morales
#56. The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
Gloria Steinem
#57. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#58. I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
Peter Maxwell Davies
#60. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
Ronnie Corbett
#61. The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.
Judy Dater
#62. You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
Jamie Hince
#63. The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
Paula Cole
#64. As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.
Toni Collette
#65. The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
Sandra Cisneros
#66. The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
Walter Isaacson
#67. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
David Levithan
#68. I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
Ringo Starr
#69. The older I get
The further I go
The more I learn
The less I know
B.J. Neblett
#70. You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.
Beyonce Knowles
#71. The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
Rhys Ifans
#72. The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
Robert Breault
#73. The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
John Scott
#74. I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
Marc Almond
#75. Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
T. Boone Pickens
#78. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#79. The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H.L. Mencken
#80. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#82. I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.
Graham Speechley
#83. The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#84. The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.
Robert Fogel
#85. Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly Parton
#86. The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
#87. I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.
Sam Bush
#88. The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.
Phoebe Philo
#89. I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out.
Martie Maguire
#90. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
Paul Hoffman
#91. The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always ...
Peter Ustinov
#92. The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.
Daria Werbowy
#93. But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.
Tyson Gay
#94. The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
Joel Osteen
#95. The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski
#97. The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
Brooke Shields
#98. The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.
John Corapi
#99. The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.
Kim Cattrall
#100. The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.
Swami Chetanananda
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