Quotes About Ageing

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

She wanted to take his hand. Her hardest task now as she grew older in the Ministry was to deal with her longing to be touched - hugged, stroked by anyone, any human being - a friend, a lover, a child or even (and here she scented danger) a servant. Of either sex. She prayed about it, asking that God's encircling arms would bring comfort. They did not

The study, entitled Lashes—Back, Front and Sideways, warned that as populations becomes older and more diverse people become more pessimistic about race relations.93

A young population, then, can have contradictory implications for production, since such bulges in population can be an economic burden during the period that its members are infants and young children, but the bulge then contributes to a boom when those children grow into their productive years – and then again it becomes a burden when they grow old, especially if the

As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.

I've decided I'm no longer pulling sweaters over my head. Maybe that's sort of an old man thing, but if it is, I'm there.

I like running and swimming, and exercise four or five times a week, but not for long - about 30 minutes. I just exercise by myself and find that as I get older it becomes easier. In school I remember not enjoying running at all.

Tussen de vele stemmen van mensen is jouw stem de enige die menselijk is die weet van het verdriet dat langzaam in de bomen groeit gevoed door de aarde tot ze oud worden sterven aan de rand van wilde of onzindelijke tuinen.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

Time didn't age you; memory did.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

Stay in shape because it's too easy to lose this race against time.

I been good. Real good. Gettin' old, but nuttin' I can do about it. If I wake up in the morning and see the sky, I know it's gonna be a good day.

I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that is fun but isn't mutton dressed up as lamb.

When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Talking is the disease of age.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

There's the other secret of love. Our hearts don't age at the same rate as the rest of our bodies. You can be old on the inside long before you're old outside.