Time, Aging & Legacy: Aging Quotes

"We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young"

William Feather, Author

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I don't want to die an old lady"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine"

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit"

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

"Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread"

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

"I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks"

Jean Rhys, Novelist

"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good"

Gary Cole, Actor

"I cry sometimes because I'm not 20 years younger and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"I do think I feel it, but you don't think you are cause, at a certain time you are no age, but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother"

Dana Delany, Actress

"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play, and you bring more of your personal experience to the part"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"

Nicholas M. Butler, Philosopher

"The older I get, the more relaxed I am"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Yeah, I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow"

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"I am too old to think"

Keith Miller, Author

"Even in five years' time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"So when I got to 50, I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know"

Bob Geldof, Actor

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