No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoMaybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.
Alice MunroAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Clint EastwoodWhen you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.
Alice MunroI have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
Billy GrahamIt were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas CarlyleFor the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich NietzscheOccasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.
David ByrneEvery morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray BradburyOld age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily DickinsonAll of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Barack ObamaSome people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.
Billy GrahamI think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel CastroThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George EliotMaturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
Jim RohnWe don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
John C. MaxwellColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanI will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis BaconWhen you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
Clint EastwoodWe should all start to live before we get too old.
Marilyn MonroeSend forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles DickensHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightWhen I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.
Billy GrahamThe older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia WoolfExperience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon RamsayAny other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.
Beyonce KnowlesWe grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
Paul AusterAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor SwiftI don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.
Taylor SwiftAt my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriHow incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LewisI have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
Billy GrahamRegrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles DickensMy kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
Kevin HartHow hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert CamusThirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. LewisGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMost nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.
David BowieFor years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret AtwoodI don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.
Kurt CobainI have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.
Jimmy CarterMortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.
Keanu ReevesI have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius CaesarAs long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
Haruki MurakamiI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinI never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert FrostI’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
Steve JobsFeels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam SandlerJack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.
Elon MuskNow I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie ChanRespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao TzuI am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
RihannaSometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor RooseveltNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander Hamilton