Ryan Babel Quotes

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.

At 47, I can't write from the perspective of a 25-year-old anymore. My life has just changed too much and my environment around me.

You obviously have a different perspective on life when you're 20 compared to when you're 16.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.