True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- Coco Chanel
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
- Kirsten Dunst
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Judith Viorst
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
- Lenny Kravitz
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
- Harrison Ford
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
- Charley Pride
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughan
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- William Hazlitt
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
- Jay London
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
- John Malkovich
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
- James Levine
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
- Christopher McCandless
I get all fired up about aging in America.
- Willard Scott
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
- Stephen King
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
- Joe Biden
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'
- John Cena
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
- Nicole Kidman
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
- T. D. Jakes
My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
- Russell Wilson
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
- Tatiana Maslany
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
- Akhmad Kadyrov
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
- Avicii