Top 100 Quotes About The Older You Get
#1. The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
Jonathan Pryce
#2. I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
Vicki Lawrence
#3. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Kirk Douglas
#4. I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
Viggo Mortensen
#5. As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.
Five For Fighting
#6. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#7. The older you get, the better you realize you were.
George Carlin
#8. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#9. After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
Nick Cave
#10. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
Elizabeth Hay
#11. The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.
Jameson Currier
#13. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#14. Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kim Hubbard
#15. The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.
Jerry Barber
#16. When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.
Marjorie Gubelmann
#17. Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. 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
#19. The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
Tia Mowry
#20. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.
Jim Butcher
#21. From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#22. There's no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.
Simon Bestwick
#23. 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
#24. Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.
Matt Hasselbeck
#25. The older you get, the more people think they have to listen to you.
Bill Engvall
#26. There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#28. The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#29. The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.
George Lucas
#30. Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.
Mark Russell
#31. What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm.
Gregory Maguire
#32. New tastes are like new ideas, young man
the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
Janet McTeer
#35. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
#36. He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.
Janeane Garofalo
#38. The older you get, the further back you feel a hunger for reading. Your view of that time changes. These people don't feel like impossibly distant specks down the reverse telescope of time.
David Mitchell
#39. The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
Rachel Weisz
#40. It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
John Hurt
#41. My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.
Louie Anderson
#42. The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan
#43. The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.
Joe Abercrombie
#44. 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
#45. The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?
Drew Barrymore
#46. It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.
Daniel Nestor
#47. Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.
Nikki Reed
#48. Trust me. The older you get, the scarier the world gets to be.
Sharon M. Draper
#49. The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
Julia Roberts
#50. I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.
Ray Stevens
#51. The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.
Steven Wright
#52. I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older you get, the more tolerant you get, right?
Dmitry Medvedev
#53. It's true as a woman, particularly: the older you get, the parts get thinner on the ground and not quite as interesting, that's for sure.
Phyllis Logan
#54. The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance ... has helped to determine your path through life.
Rowan Atkinson
#55. I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
Faith Hill
#56. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
Tina Turner
#57. The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
Steve Howey
#58. The older you get, the longer ago everything happened.
- Jason's Fifth Law
Jason Dias
#59. I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
Indira Varma
#60. The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y
David Levithan
#61. It is good to be married to an archeologist because the older you get the more interested he becomes in you. Agatha Christie
Shirley Bullock
#62. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#63. As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
John McEnroe
#64. The older you get, the more you have to talk about, and music is a really good outlet. I've chilled on it a little bit, and I can't wait to see what I'm going to step into, now that I have this collection of things.
Selena Gomez
#65. The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
Nick Tosches
#66. The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.
Bill Bryson
#67. I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
John Banville
#68. It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. Maxwell
#69. The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham
#70. The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.
Gary Player
#71. When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.
Misty Copeland
#72. As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.
Mark Consuelos
#73. The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
Max Frisch
#74. The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.
Neale Donald Walsch
#75. I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
Jane Fonda
#76. My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.
Chuck D
#77. The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
Jeff Daniels
#78. The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.
Robin Wright
#79. The older you get, the more every trauma is the same trauma.
Kim Fu
#80. The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
Winona Ryder
#81. The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.
Trevor Noah
#82. I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
Randy Moss
#83. I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get ... the more everything just turns to shit.
Brian K. Vaughan
#84. I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.
Amanda Peet
#85. I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
Tom Ford
#86. The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.
Sandra Cisneros
#87. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
Bob Hope
#88. I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
Jackee Harry
#89. The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.
Heather Locklear
#90. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#91. Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Viggo Mortensen
#92. Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#93. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#94. The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson
#95. That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
Bob Hope
#96. The older you get, the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, l-i-v-i-n'
Matthew McConaughey
#97. You're okay, and you're going to be okay. I didn't say you won't be scared. The anger, fear, anxiety, and depression you'll feel are like masks at Halloween. And, you'll see them again and again in your life. But it gets easier the older you get.
Nancy K. Peardon
#98. The older you get the more you live in the past
Walter Mosley
#99. The older you get, the younger everybody else looks.
- Jason's Second law
Jason Dias
#100. I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.
Tom Cullen
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