Best 164 quotes in «getting older quotes» category

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get pregnant, and now it's a crazy time where I might not be able to get pregnant because I'm getting older and my eggs are aging and my uterus isn't as fertile as it used to be and my loins are not where they used to be.

Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

In the fifties... when they had their summer parties - there were always different colored lanterns on the lawn... and I get the funniest chill. In the end the bright colors always go out of life, have you noticed that? In the end, things always look gray, like a dress that's been washed too many times.

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God love more' who end their life early; i can see life and the ability of age as an tremendous gift from God. When i see my 'almost to 70 years old' parents make me think, if I 70 look like and act like them i am not worried about getting older (which i never) because they has set of pleasant example of life at that age. (Ejump,2016)

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he feels patterns on his cortex going dark, settling to sleep forever, parts of whoever he's been losing all definition, reverting to dumb chemistry...

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.

Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through. "They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

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] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

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.

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

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 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.