I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance…

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted…

— Carol Burnett

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments,…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I think the conversation about sex is one that never grows old and is one that people are always drawn to.

— Helene Yorke

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People…

— Douglas MacArthur

I know hotel life sounds good but, believe me, it grows old when you have eaten the menu ten times over and you know…

— Glenn Murray

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The…

— Brennan Manning

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a…

— Samuel Ullman

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then…

— Anne Bradstreet

“The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” Midnight returned cheerfully.”

— Katherine Arden

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but…

— Douglas MacArthur

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

— Sallust

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need…

— William Butler Yeats

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

— Robertson Davies

“Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?”

— W.B. Yeats