Older People Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Older People
Older People Quotes & Sayings
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When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
— Terraine Francois
But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.
— Haven Kimmel
I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ...
— John Geddes
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
— David R. Brower
When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.
— Malcolm Forbes
And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities.
— Cecelia Ahern
The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.
— Tommy Lee
If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.
— Laura L. Carstensen
I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
— Daniel Petrie
People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
— Natalie Cole
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
— Sarah Dessen
I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
— Samantha Power
People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.
— Candice Bergen
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
— Christopher Walken
I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.
— William Faulkner
Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.
— Andre Agassi
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
— Adora Svitak
No one seems to consider that even people who are thought to be intellectually impaired can change as they grow older.
— Martin Pistorius
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
— Jeanette Winterson
Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.
— Michelle Trachtenberg
The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.
— Joe Abercrombie
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The only thing some people do is get older.
— E.W. Howe
The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.
— Aldous Huxley
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
— Tom Bosley
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
— Steve Jobs
So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.
— George Chuvalo
Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.
— Peter Cosgrove
I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
— Etta James
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
— Abigail Breslin
Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.
— Buddy Wakefield
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
— Julie Burchill
Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
— Ray Bradbury
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
— Matt LeBlanc
We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.
— Julie Bishop
And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.
— Jonny Lang
Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
— S. Jay Olshansky
The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
— Andrew Davies
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.
— James Surowiecki
seventy fall short of the current target for vitamin D; older people fare even worse,
— Walter C. Willett
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
— Warwick Davis
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
— Fran Lebowitz
When I went back and watched a couple of the older 'Doctor Who' episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.
— Daphne Ashbrook
It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me.
— Michael Chabon
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
— Imogen Cunningham
The older I get, the less I care what people think of me, but I care a great deal about people knowing my business.
— Cassie Dandridge Selleck
When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.
— Margaret Campbell Barnes
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
— William McDonough
The older I get, the less I enjoy the presence of other people.
— Tracy Guzeman
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
— Rineke Dijkstra
Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'
— Victoria Beckham
People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.
— Catherine Bailey
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
— Rufus Wainwright
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
— Beck Bennett
As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.
— Rumer Willis
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
— Dolly Parton
I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
— Jack Whitehall
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
— Kim Cattrall
I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.
— Kobe Bryant
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
— James Surowiecki
One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.
— Lee Marvin
Young people are still looking and older people have found ...
— David Johansen
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
— Dale Earnhardt
As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.
— Sadguru
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
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
