Older Quotes

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

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

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.