Words matter. These are the best Growing Old Quotes from famous people such as Erin O’Connor, Sophocles, Amy Grant, Mattie Stepanek, Logan Pearsall Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we’re going to have to define differently what I’m going to be. We’re going to have to define my growing up differently.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It’s tough on the ego.
I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
I’m just growing old, darling. I don’t know about gracefully.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.
I’m just growing old, darling. I don’t know about gracefully.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
Growing old is not growing up.
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people’s!
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
But time growing old teaches all things.
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
I’ve been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It’s something I’m apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would’ve lived a different life if I would’ve stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I’d be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people’s!
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
I’ve looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Women shouldn’t have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can’t do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
There’s that term ‘growing old gracefully’ but why should you? There’s nothing wrong with a little tweak here and there if it’s right for you.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn.
The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I’ve still got, but losing the memory is another matter.
The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It’s tough on the ego.
I think believing in eternal love or growing old together, people might think is a bit old fashioned. I am bit old fashioned, and I truly believe that it can happen provided that you do find the correct person.
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can’t do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
No country’s policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year’s time, a government can look different. You can’t influence them if you don’t talk to them.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
I’ve been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It’s something I’m apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
I’m growing old, I delight in the past.
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
I think believing in eternal love or growing old together, people might think is a bit old fashioned. I am bit old fashioned, and I truly believe that it can happen provided that you do find the correct person.
I’ve looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
