People say, 'Respect your elders,' but I always go, 'Respect your young people because they are our future.' — Booker T Copy Share Image
I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not. — Dabbs Greer Copy Share Image
“Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.” — Alice Albinia Copy Share Image
My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional." — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Maturity is not wen we start speaking big things. it is when we start understanding small things... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
I had a lot of adversity that kind of tested my maturity and things I was able to learn from and were… — Marcus Smart Copy Share Image
Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
“Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny’s arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“It was odd how people in their forties often lost faith in their own maturity and decided to step backwards.” — Joel Lane, Mat Joiner Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find… — David Shields Copy Share Image
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.” — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
“Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Small minds blame others for their misery. Maturity comes when we take ownership of our own destiny and take responsibility for our… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumours don't define who you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Maturity doesn’t advance linearly, like you steadily and readily becoming more profound in your thinking. No, it staggers and stumbles like a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' — Angela Featherstone Copy Share Image
“One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
