Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

It is funny what a year can do.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

Years are not important, my dear.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The older you get, the more you learn.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I think you get better as you get older.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

A lot has transpired in my life.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.