Getting Older Quotes

“The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.”

“Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it's so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isn't going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring”

“I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.”

“My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.”

“I absolutely hate getting older and it's not because of the way it makes you look. It's because I have this sense of so much still left to do and to see. It's my fear of missing out on the future that really gets to me.”

“I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.”

“When I started out, nutrition wasn't a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I'm getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.”

“I'm happy to be selfish now. That's the beauty of getting older.”

“I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.”

“I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.”

“I think there are real benefits to getting older. And the confidence to deal with difficult situations is one of them.”

“There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.”

“Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.”

“One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.”

“I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.”

“You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.”

“We naturally are getting older and one of the beauties about being in a band is it keeps you feeling young.”

“I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel like it's time, when you get older, through experience, to... I started to feel quite... what's the word? ... intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.”

“When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”

“People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.”