Willa Cather Quotes

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

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

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.