#older

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. ↗

— Keith Henson

#any #attitudes #bright #case #changing

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now. ↗

— Barbara Hershey

#also #because #better #feel #fun

Fear is a huge thing for older people. ↗

— James Hillman

#huge #huge thing #older #older people #people

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#age #always #am #around #assumed

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#declare #die #fight #men #must

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass. ↗

— David F. Houston

#feed #frequently #grass #however #lands

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#forward #good #i #looking #looking forward

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#although #anything #armenian #beginning #culture