Older Quotes

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

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.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

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.