Older Quotes

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

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.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

I think it is nice to get older.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.