Amy Lowell Quotes

You obviously have a different perspective on life when you're 20 compared to when you're 16.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

One should mature over 20 years.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

As you grow older, you change.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

I think there's this thing that happens when you're younger: The things that you want are different than when you're older, and sometimes the person that you liked when you were a teenager is not necessarily the person that you would want to settle down with for the rest of your life once you're older, more mature, and have kids.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

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

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.