David Crystal Quotes

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

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.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

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.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

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.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

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

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

Did I really want to teach my children that a list of successes is the most valuable legacy to leave behind? I absolutely did not.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.