Older Quotes

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

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

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.

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

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.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.