Older Quotes

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.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

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've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

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.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.