Older Quotes

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

I love older men.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

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

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.