Best 164 quotes in «getting older quotes» category

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

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

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

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

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.

I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.

I'm 52, which means I don't really... I was never a person who celebrated birthdays to begin with. At this stage, it's certainly something that someone who made a big deal out of their birthdays in their 20s and 30s kind of hangs that up. Not because you're sad to be getting older. I'm thrilled to be getting older. I have so many friends who died when they were 25 and would be ecstatic to be here with me turning 50. It's a thrill and a privilege to still be alive.

I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?