Shirley Conran Quotes

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

One should mature over 20 years.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

One has to evolve with age, and that's what I am doing.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

I'm growing older, but not up.

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

As you grow older, you change.

Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I'm just getting older and better.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

When you become of age, you can sometimes feel like you have to force maturity. I've been lucky that I didn't feel that I had to try. Growth is something that is going to come, you just need to sit back and let it happen naturally.