Growing Older Quotes

Now is the time to become a myth.

I'm growing older, but not up.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

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

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

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

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't used. Just the naming of something that's invisible, or was thought of as shameful or different - giving it a name that's not a slur is powerful. It's still a little hard to imagine what it might look like growing older as a trans man, but I think that's going to change for the next generation. For trans kids growing up, that visual bridge towards their future selves is starting to develop in conjunction with this trans media wave we're in.

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

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

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Growing older doesnt bother me.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.