Gordon Parks Quotes

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

My life is better with every year of living it.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

The older you get, the more you appreciate where you are and the more confidence you have in what you can do.

Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I am too old to think.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.