R. Kelly Quotes

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

I've been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you're the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.