Ricky Schroder Quotes

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

It takes a long time to become young.

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

The older you get, the more you've done.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

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.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

I find I'm an old soul.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.