Getting Older Quotes
A gentler way to think about the years adding up.
These lines look at aging less as decline and more as a shift in vantage point, where distant events finally make sense and roles once considered limiting start to open up. Several voices here describe feeling both wiser and, oddly, still not fully grown. For related moods, check out Feel quotes.
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all...
No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I...
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn’t enough funding in the system. And there’s a whole number of injustices.
I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have...
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the...
When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do get married... this is just a natural evolution. I wonder if we'll have 'Big Bang' babies in the...
There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already...
