Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)

The concept of growing up is so hard to quantify. What have you learned and how have you changed and how have you stayed exactly the same? As I get older, it's something I reflect on more and more. Especially as the generations go on. We wait longer to have families, we wait longer to have responsibilities. Everyone used to be married by 20 and pregnant immediately.

Act your age, not your shoe size.