Top 460 Older Quotes

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty – the perception that as you grow older, you ‘lose your looks,’ which I think is diabolical.

I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.

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.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends’ weddings and things that I’ve always just missed out on because of softball.

You can’t stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.

It’s funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you’re in your twenties, you’re skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of ‘sexy’ has changed as I’ve gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

I had an affair with an older woman when I was at college, and she was a strong feminist, which shaped my view of women. I learned that they could call the shots, which was fine with me.

The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That’s what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be – so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.

Someone asked me what part of the body is the most important to be strong – it’s the big toe. The big toe especially, and the inner front-third of your feet, are what give you balance and will make you infinitely better at any sport, any physical activity and, as you get older, will keep you from falling.

That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

My mother, Anne, was a cleaner and a shopkeeper. Out of economic necessity she had to hold down two jobs and she would take me and my older sisters, Dawn and Joanna, and my younger brother, David, with her when she cleaned houses.

People are taking a second look at Compton or rethinking what they believed to be true. Even the rap stars who helped established Compton’s reputation worldwide are older now, and even their images have evolved.

As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It’s exciting for me. I felt like I’ve been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I’m trying to be more like him as I get older.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we’ve misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

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

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

Be happy that you’re growing older, that you’re maturing, that you’re smarter, that you’re wiser.

Would not obeying to my mother’s warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother’s, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

It’s funny how getting older – or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades – can make you change your ambitions.

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I’ve become really comfortable with as I’ve gotten older. My scars.

As a kid, you’re like, ‘Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?’ You hear people talking about it, and it was like, ‘Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.’ I didn’t even know it was a race until I got older.

As you get older, you start to understand you have to do what you need to do.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I’m very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Getting older is a fact of life.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize how important it is to vary your workouts.

The NBA is 95% mental and 5% physical, so it’s more in my favor now with me being older.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

If you’re winning bike races ahead of guys who’re older than you then they’re going to get upset. When some young guy appears from nowhere, some people who are slower assume they ride dangerously.

People think that young people don’t care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren’t super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

I legitimately would like to drive a yellow bus when I’m older so I’ve actually thought about – I want to be either a crossing guard or drive a yellow bus. Drive the kids to school or let them cross to school so, you know, that’s something I’m excited about. I’m serious about that. I think that will be great.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don’t think that was love. I think as I’m getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I’ll experience it. At the moment, I don’t know, exactly, if I’ve been in love.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life – suffering, horror, love, loss, hate – all of it.

Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I can’t really remember a time in my life when I didn’t know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can’t believe it now – it’s like one of those ex-husbands that you think, ‘What was I thinking?’

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I’m proud of those songs, but there’s no way I would write ‘Somebody Told Me,’ as I get older. Especially after having kids.