There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitud...
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Well... you know, I love motorcycles. They're just beautiful, and there's a certain craftsmanship in older bikes, older Triumphs or BSAs or Norton. I'm just very attracted to it.
It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.
As we grow older our bad qualities make us younger.
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rath...
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenst...
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.
I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.
I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.
When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.
As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.
