Older Quotes

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

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

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

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

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 get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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.