Miriam Makeba Quotes

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.