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Growing older doesn't bother me. -- Angie Dickinson
Growing old is not growing up. -- Douglas Horton
As you grow older, you change. -- Martin Scorsese
We don't grow older, we grow riper. -- Pablo Picasso
But time growing old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus
I intend to grow old very disgracefully. -- Cilla Black
The trick is growing up without growing old. -- Casey Stengel
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. -- Chili Davis
Now is the time to become a myth. -- Diane von Furstenberg
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -- John Leonard
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. -- Brigitte Bardot
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. -- Kenny Rogers
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old. -- Sallust
Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think. -- Dane DeHaan
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old. -- Simone Signoret
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance. -- Gladys Taber
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. -- Ann Landers
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. -- George Bernard Shaw
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. -- Maurice Chevalier
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -- Robert Frost
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only. -- Honore de Balzac
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. -- Gail Sheehy
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get. -- Henry Rollins
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older. -- Louise Hay
Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove. -- Li Bai
I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going. -- Angelina Jolie
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. -- Polly Toynbee
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older. -- Ian Anderson
the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps. -- Gladys Taber
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. -- Kingsley Amis
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Billy Graham
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is. -- Alex Witchel
In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's. -- Willa Cather
Growing older doesnt bother me. -- Angie Dickinson
I'm growing older, but not up. -- Jimmy Buffett
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. -- Heather Brewer
Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana. -- Ashton Irwin
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... -- Susan Sontag
I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. -- Bob Hope
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. -- Alice Munro
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older. -- Bob Geldof
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older -- Bob Geldof
For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing. -- Nigel Barker
I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week. -- Niall Horan
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom. -- Isabella Rossellini
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. -- Liz Smith
Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup. -- James Simpson
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. -- Regina Brett
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege. -- Cary Grant
Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see. -- Ingmar Bergman
Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly? -- Henri Nouwen
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing. -- Park Chan-wook
I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger. -- Lexi Thompson
The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. -- Pete Townshend
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. -- Anna Godbersen
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do. -- Alison Moyet
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. -- Charles Kuralt
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. -- Elizabeth Aston
Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent. -- Tristan Prettyman
It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made. -- Peter Bofinger
I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. -- Meryl Streep
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. -- Ambrose Bierce
And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat. -- Diana Gabaldon
There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints. -- Jimmy Fallon
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. -- Ray Lewis
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh. -- Rainey Qualley
I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts. -- Gary Gulman
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't. -- Jodi Picoult
O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen. -- Wang Wei
Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got. -- Ashley Tisdale
Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up. -- Ricky Gervais
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good. -- Joanna Lumley
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. -- John Dos Passos
Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it. -- Abhishek Shukla
Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older. -- Isabella Rossellini
Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older. -- Leonard Cohen
In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore. -- Christian Bale
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age. -- Sebastian Horsley
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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