Bonnie Raitt Quotes

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

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.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

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

I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

I don't want to be 25 again.

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

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

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.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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

Aging is a synonym for living.

'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.