

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
Children & Childhood, BirthdayAntoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little PrinceYou're never too old to be young.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, by Snow WhiteYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Youth, GenerationsAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixA woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.
WomenCoco ChanelNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Beauty, BirthdayCoco ChanelI do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
Children & ChildhoodWalt Disney"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
Astrid Lindgren in Pippi LongstockingPeople think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might
Youth, Feelings & EmotionsRihannaYou are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. LewisThe more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Life, Birthday, SandJean Paul GettyLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
LoveBruce LeeThere's no age where everything is experienced as intense as during childhood. We old people should always remember that.
Children & ChildhoodAstrid LindgrenThe older I get, the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom.
WisdomJohn Teller in Sons Of Anarchy, Season 1 Episode 6Disneyland isn't designed just for children. When does a person stop being a child? Can you say that a child is ever entirely eliminated from an adult?
Children & ChildhoodWalt DisneyWe don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Birthday, PlayingGeorge Bernard ShawWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Children & ChildhoodI Corinthians, 13,11I think as you grow older your christmas list gets shorter, because the things you want can't be bought.
ChristmasEarl Dibbles Jr.Count your age by friends, not years.
Count your life by smiles, not tears.
When I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
BasketballMichael JordanThe man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Experience, BirthdayMuhammad AliYou have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
Meryl StreepWell, it's fantastic when you consider the alternative.
Daniel Radcliffe, on how he feels about getting olderThere is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
WisdomKenny RogersAge is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-KerseeAnother belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret AtwoodWhen you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
MotivationGrace SlickA child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Children & ChildhoodPablo NerudaFor years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
Children & ChildhoodWilliam GibsonGrace: "Are you afraid of anything, Tom Booker?"
Tom Booker: "Of growing old. Being of no use."
When people today say I'm 70, I say that's a confounded lie. I'm twice 35, that's all. Twice 35.
BirthdayAlfred HitchcockIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
DreamingGabriel Garcia MarquezMichael: "Come on. I mean, 50? 50 is so young."
Colin: "People only use '50' and 'so young' in the same sentence at a funeral."
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
BeautyCoco ChanelFeeling attractive didn't come until I was 29. What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?"-questions? Worried? What about? 38, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!
Kate BeckinsaleIt's about the fact that aging is a horrible, inevitable death sentence where your body betrays you slowly 'til you die.
Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia, Season 1 Episode 2What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
MemoriesWilliam Somerset Maugham