Older Quotes

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

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.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.