Older Quotes

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.