Older Quotes

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

I'm an older generation.

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

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 bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

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.