Growing old Quotes

Growing old is not growing up.

— Douglas Horton

Life can only be understood backwards.

— Mackenzie Astin

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

— Aeschylus

Beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A man growing old becomes a child again.

— Sophocles

“Growing old isn’t for pussies.”

— Hanif Kureishi

As long as you're working, you stay young.

— George Burns

Growing older doesnt bother me.

— Angie Dickinson

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

— Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

— Kenny Rogers

“The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

— Bob Geldof

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

— Anonymous

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

— Mark Hart

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

— Ian Somerhalder

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

— H. H. Asquith

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“If we’re going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to…

— George Saunders

I'm not having any problems with my body so I don't need to supplement. Growing older you don't recover as fast, but…

— Eliud Kipchoge

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...

— Susan Sontag

The thought of growing old alone scares me...but after being alone for so long...I realize that...It's not going to kill me!

— Kevin Messick

“Those retirement villa ladies are wild.  They truly believe that growing older just gives them a license to be bolder.”

— Meredith Potts

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.

— Anonymous

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

— Anonymous

Mother stands for M For the MILLION things she gave me, O For shuttles growing OLD, T For the TEARS she shed…

— Babloo

“When I look at you, I don’t just see your face. I see my entire future. I see our marriage. I see…

— M.V. Kasi

“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there…

— Roman Payne

I have 4 Beautiful Best Friends & they are the world to me. We all have been thru the worse yet nothing…

— Maria Rivera

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you…

— Johnny Depp

“A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half…

— Victoria Moran

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects…

— Demi Moore

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only…

— Henry Ford

“Yesterday on the street I passed the 100% perfect girl,' I tell someone. 'Yeah?' he says. 'Good-looking?' 'Not really.' 'Your favorite type,…

— Haruki Murakami

“But the disastrous walk reminded me that I had reached an age where only careful planning and a steady eye would keep…

— Lynn Darling

“I know that mood. Three years of the desert taught it to me. Something in one’s heart takes fright, not at the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Parents impatiently see us growing up. As old age is inevitable they gradually Become older and older. We seldom think it. But…

— Pramod Wickramathilaka

There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no…

— Dennis Lehane

“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing…

— Michael Thomas Ford

Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't…

— Rhys Ernst