We Get Older Quotes

#1. As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

Sheena Iyengar

#2. We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.

Vlade Divac

#3. Remember, breasts don't sag as we get older, they relax.

Marty Klein

#4. Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

Jennifer Lawrence

#5. I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

Meghan Markle

#6. As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

Gayle Forman

#7. Time really does seem to fly as we get older, that's because we've forgotten to stop for a while to enjoy the time

Steven Aitchison

#8. We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

Estelle

#9. Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

Randy Pausch

#10. We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Robert Anthony

#11. Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

John Updike

#12. The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.

Walter Benjamin

#14. What felt interminable the first time now passes with a quickness borne of familiarity. It makes me wonder if life seems to accelerate as we get older simply because our days and our experiences become routine. The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention.

Hugh Howey

#15. As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

Stephen King

#16. As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

Ciara

#17. I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

Spike Jonze

#18. Maybe that's why adults drink, gamble, and do drugs - because they can't get naturally lit anymore. Maybe we lose that ability as we get older.

Matthew Quick

#19. I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

Justine Bateman

#20. The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

Joanna Lumley

#21. In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.

Eric Fellner

#22. The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

Paul McAuley

#23. My hope is, as we start sixth grade, as we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. Thank you. How I Finally Introduced Myself I

R.J. Palacio

#24. The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

Paul Kropp

#25. When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

John Hodgman

#26. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Lisa Lutz

#27. It's kind of embarrassing to put this into words," she said, "but I want to stay friends with you, Junpei. Not just for now, but even after we get older. A lot older. I love Takatsuki, but I need you, too, in a different way. Does that make me selfish?

Haruki Murakami

#28. As we get older ... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

Maury Yeston

#29. As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are.

R.J. Palacio

#30. As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

Chris Christie

#31. Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#32. Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

#33. As we get older, things seem less important.

Brian Cox

#34. As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Crystal Woods

#35. As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.

Devon McDonald

#36. We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older ... then it is very hard to change our minds

Howard Gardner

#37. Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again.

Steve Almond

#38. You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Jonathan Carroll

#39. We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Allen Steele

#40. As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

Steve Martin

#41. The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

Tina Sloan

#42. The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

Alan Russell

#43. I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would hope, and, if I didn't, what can I do tomorrow to be a little better, I do think we can improve. We get better at life as we get older.

David Brooks

#44. I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

Molly Ivins

#45. Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.

Lulu

#46. Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Masi Oka

#47. As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, "Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.

Sheryl Sandberg

#48. I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#49. Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Gail Sheehy

#50. Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

Trudi Canavan

#51. We don't have all the answers ... as we get older, our bodies need repair.

Benny Hinn

#52. Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

Ken Robinson

#53. We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Joan D. Chittister

#54. When we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Vicki Baum

#55. When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

Corey Taylor

#56. As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#57. Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Joshua Foer

#58. When we get older - when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another - we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.

Gregory David Roberts

#59. All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

George Clooney

#60. As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Charles Cumming

#61. They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Ariel Gore

#62. Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

Kim Cattrall

#63. As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.

Dave Morris

#64. I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Lisi Harrison

#65. Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Sandra Bullock

#66. Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible days.

Janice Thompson

#67. As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

Jessica Walsh

#68. As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

Heston Blumenthal

#69. The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

Gia Coppola

#70. As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Henry Reed

#71. It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Robert Herjavec

#72. Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

John Leonard

#73. We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Michael Leunig

#74. I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

Andie MacDowell

#75. There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health.

Sandra A. Cusack

#76. Lanthe, when we get older, you're going to be mine." She blinked up at him from a garland she'd been braiding. "How can I be yours when I'm my own?

Kresley Cole

#77. As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Matt Smith

#78. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Will Rogers

#79. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

William Gibson

#80. As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

Guido Palau

#81. Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

Dean Wareham

#82. The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

Sara Rue

#83. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Caryl Rivers

#84. We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other people to be curious for them. That's what I do for a living.

Ron Miriello

#85. The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.

Wendy Lustbader

#86. The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity of the things.

Deyth Banger

#87. Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes.

Pat Conroy

#88. I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

William Devane

#89. But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

Bruce McCulloch

#90. I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Taylor Swift

#91. As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Fetty Wap

#92. The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

George Q. Morris

#93. I protest against all our interest, all our effort at understanding being given to the young skins that look blooming in spite of trouble; for these too will get faded, and will know the older and more eating griefs which we are helping to neglect. In

George Eliot

#94. My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."

Reese Witherspoon

#95. I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.

Jonny Weston

#96. The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

Erica Jong

#97. We must first get over the myth that older workers can't innovate.

Vivek Wadhwa

#98. My older brother's been my best friend since I can remember. I talk to him every day of my life, and anytime he's in town we're together. But I'm also very close with my parents. We all get along very, very well. We've never had fights or anything like that.

Mitchel Musso

#99. I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

Roxane Gay

#100. We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

Natalie Cole