Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

I love talking with elderly people.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your first record into the world is also about everything else that you've ever experienced in your life until that moment.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life