Justine Bateman Quotes

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

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

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.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.