Amy Grant Quotes

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I don't want to be 25 again.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

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.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.