Quotes about Age

“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”

“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”

“If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.”

“Adults are obsolete children.”

“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”

“Anakattil Chackochi was a titular character that appealed to all irrespective of age and my son, as a kid, used to call himself Kochu Chackochi.”

“Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.”

“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.”

“Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'”

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.”

“As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?”

“When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.”

“I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.”

“Age don't count in the booth.”

“You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.”

“Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.”

“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”

“I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.”

“Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.”

“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”