David Lowery Quotes

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.