Robert Gottlieb Quotes

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Some age, others mature.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.