Jeff Foxworthy Quotes

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

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.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.

I think when you get to a certain age, older people become more emotional than younger people.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

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.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

I softened in my old age.

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

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.

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.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.