Older Quotes

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I'm just getting older and better.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

You totally value and respect your body as you get older.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.