Older Quotes

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

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.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

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.