Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.