141 Quotes About Growing-old

"It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption."

"Growing up without growing old is a utopian ideal."

"How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast."

"There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place by E. B. White"

"Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking?"

"As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend."

"The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old."

"You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time."

"Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up"