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Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. — Cher

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

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege. — Cary Grant

You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable. — Rob Harrell

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. — Anna Godbersen

Growing older is to grow more wicked. — Frank Herbert

When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her. — Emilia Fox

Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less. — Penelope Farmer

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

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281) — Victoria Moran

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

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think. — Dane DeHaan

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time. — Kim Dong Hwa

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. — Hector Hugh Munro

I like every part of growing older except what happens to your feet.
Written by Avis DeVoto to Julia Child in As Always, Julia — Joan Reardon

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. — Pete Townshend

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

Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt. — Jessie Burton

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us. — Ashton Applewhite

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to. — Tana French

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

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self. — Elizabeth Harrower

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. — Coco Chanel

Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one. — Lauren Beukes

In growing older, we become our parents. — Julien Green

With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older. — Amanda L. Moritz

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. — Ronald Reagan

You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now. — J. Ellsworth Kalas

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. — Winston Groom

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

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones. — Leelee Sobieski

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot. — Jaffe Cohen

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

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — L.M. Montgomery

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see. — Ingmar Bergman

I'm growing older, but not up. — Jimmy Buffett

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. — Ellen DeGeneres

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It's one of the hazards of growing older. — J. A. Jance

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

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom. — Isabella Rossellini

There's nothing you can do about growing older, and I should know. But growing up? That's entirely at your own discretion. — Nick Moseley

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

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers. — Michael Marshall Smith

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. — Robert Frost

I've wondered since if you can ever truly read a face. It's too easy to see what you so desperately want to see, even if it isn't there. I knew that. — Debbie Howells

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live. — Barbara Delinsky

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

Want to forget that you're growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet. — Toni Sorenson

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. — Liz Smith

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. — Bob Hope

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly? — Henri Nouwen

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

When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older. — Sophie Turner

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming. — Flannery O'Connor

Don't regret growing older ... remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup. — James Simpson

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite. — Shelley Noble

One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face. — Mercedes Lackey

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. — Debasish Mridha

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you. — Julian Fellowes

If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old. — Carew Papritz

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. — Ann Landers

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris. — Jane Tara

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. — Alice Munro

I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that. — Graham Speechley

In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman. — Abigail George

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. — Gary Clark Jr.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith. — Amy Neftzger

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. — Heather Brewer

Don't grow older - grow wiser. — Debasish Mridha

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only. — Honore De Balzac

Growing older is certain; growing wiser is harder and optional. — Debasish Mridha

I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger. — Lexi Thompson

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside. — Bonnie Hunt

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 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

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana. — Ashton Irwin

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

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. — Terry Pratchett

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. — Malcolm Cowley

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing. — Nigel Barker

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. — Paul Kropp

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

There's plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well. — Morton Shaevitz

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

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up. — Michael Marshall Smith

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality. — Debasish Mridha

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older. — Bob Geldof