Top 100 You Get Older Quotes
#1. Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.
John Connolly
#2. You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.
Charles Barkley
#3. As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
Annie Leibovitz
#4. When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'
Robert Redford
#5. When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#7. My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Lenny Kravitz
#8. Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
John Cusack
#9. I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.
Amy Smart
#10. Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.
Tracey Emin
#11. I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.
Phil Keoghan
#12. When you're a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.
Brando Skyhorse
#13. Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.
Rashida Jones
#14. When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.
Rob Zombie
#15. As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.
Michael Winner
#16. The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
Idina Menzel
#17. You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this ... Ready "
"Ready."
"At least I tried.
Ann Brashares
#18. We throw stones though we live in glass houses,
We talk shit like its a cross to bare.
You're only relevant 'til you get older.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
Alex Gaskarth
#19. I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#20. I think as you get older and things don't work as much as they used to, you've got to have a tendency to do what's right for your body.
Andre Reed
#21. Well ... like, when you're born, you're a little baby, you're wrinkly and stuff, when you get older you sort of morph into a baby again ...
Karl Pilkington
#22. Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
John Lennon
#23. As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
Wayne Coyne
#24. You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.
David Crosby
#25. When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.
Boy George
#26. I'm almost 46. You become no longer even regarded in a sexual way. As you get older you're just taken out of that realm. So it's not anything that particularly confronts me very much at all.
Janeane Garofalo
#27. As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
Carine Roitfeld
#28. I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.
Mick Ralphs
#29. I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.
Rebecca Ferguson
#30. You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.
David Ortiz
#31. As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.
Phil Keoghan
#32. Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.
Michael Schumacher
#33. It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.
Penelope Cruz
#34. When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.
Jerry Hall
#35. You know, as you get older... your body ages." -- Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo
#36. When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
Sinead O'Connor
#37. New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
Max Von Sydow
#38. It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.
Cameron Diaz
#39. The quality of your life should get better as you get older and not worse. If not ... start reevaluating your life.
Timothy Pina
#40. As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
Chaka Khan
#41. On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.
Martin Scorsese
#42. I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
Hanya Yanagihara
#43. When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.
Lawrence Block
#45. Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself
Scott Goldblatt
#46. Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?
Mindy Kaling
#47. As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
Bill Nighy
#48. As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
Brian O'Driscoll
#49. No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
Danica Patrick
#50. When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Wayne Rooney
#51. It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.
Rhiannon Held Silver
#52. When you get older, you know that life's mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed.
Linda Gray
#53. I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles
Jerry Hall
#54. I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.
Margaret Cho
#55. As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.
Lea Thompson
#56. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis Morissette
#57. As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.
Victoria Legrand
#58. It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.
Rau'Shee Warren
#59. 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins
#60. I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait
Hugh Laurie
#61. If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
Andrew Mason
#62. The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.
Clint Eastwood
#63. As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
Natalie Dormer
#64. 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
#65. As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.
Betty Buckley
#66. When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
Bruce Forsyth
#67. As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.
Lela Loren
#68. As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.
Troy Vincent
#69. Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.
John Hurt
#70. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
Bill Gates
#71. I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
James McAvoy
#72. When you're younger you've got a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities, and I make them laugh because I know exactly what they're going through. When you get older you think, it's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.
Anthony Hopkins
#73. As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
John Travolta
#75. When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.
Rhoda Janzen
#76. Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
Jennifer Donnelly
#77. As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Alan King
#78. Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
George Jones
#79. When you're young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other.
Elan Mastai
#80. Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
Art Farmer
#81. When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#82. As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
Jerry West
#83. What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.
Ricky Williams
#84. I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Meryl Streep
#85. John," I said, "when you get older, you're going to understand a lot of things you don't understand now." "You must mean nuclear physics," he said. "I can hardly wait.
Kurt Vonnegut
#86. I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.
Chris Carmack
#88. There should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun.
Randy Pausch
#89. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
Eddie Murphy
#90. I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.
Robert Hilburn
#91. As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.
Julianna Margulies
#92. And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
Carrie Fisher
#93. As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
Clint Eastwood
#94. As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.
Logan Lerman
#95. As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher
#96. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtry
#97. One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
Cassandra Clare
#98. I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .
Seth
#99. You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
Deborah Moggach
#100. I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
Haruki Murakami
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