From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. – Henry Charles Carey
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. – Gerald Brenan
As I’ve got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn’t want to tamper with it. – Helen McCrory
As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It’s about realising things can’t be perfect. – Harriet Walter
As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so. – Gemma Jones
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger. – Greta Scacchi
Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany. – Gunter Grass
When you get older, it’s not about what you did that you regret, it’s what you didn’t do. – Grace Slick
I’m 23; I feel older than that, but I feel comfortable. I’m assured of myself, and it’s not a problem. – Harry Kane
I’m travelling more than ever. I don’t have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I’ve got older. – Hugh Masekela
With the ‘Old Kingdom’ trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind. – Garth Nix
I think the older you are, the more you’re going to cling to the printed word as being sacred. – H. G. Bissinger
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell. – Howie Mandel
I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. – Jamie Lee Curtis
Also, as I’ve gotten older and more mature, I’ve become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that’s reflected onstage. – Janeane Garofalo
Now that I’m older, I like almost anything that’s done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. – John Fogerty
I’m a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them. – Josh Hartnett
As I’ve grown older, I’ve grown more convinced there’s nothing that shouldn’t be talked about. If we think we’re protecting each other, we’re not. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. – Jeanette Winterson
I don’t belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism – although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer. – Jane Campion
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person. – Jarvis Cocker
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. – Jello Biafra
