Quotes About Ageing

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

Health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see, you know? Or, as one tradition says, when we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important—and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health. You never want to be the richest person in the graveyard, you know.

I mean, she said that one can't help growing older. One can't perhaps, said Humpty Dumpty but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven

Quero dizer que uma pessoa não pode evitar ficar mais velha' 'Uma não pode, talvez', disse Humpty Dumpty, 'mas duas podem. Com a devida assistência, talvez, você teria podido parar em sete'.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

I'm growing older, but not up.

Greeting the ageing self In trying to depathologize age, we need to make an important distinction, between resisting ageism (stereotyping or discriminating on the basis of age) and resisting age itself. The first opens the door to a path of rich potential, freeing us to keep on developing and changing, while the second closes it, condemning us to an endless attempt to recover the irretrievable.

Those who urge us to fight ageing are, in effect, inviting us to stop growing and developing

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

Protecting children at risk of exploitation will always be a priority, and at the other end, safeguarding an ageing population brings its own challenges.

I am in my late 40s now, so I wake up fatter than when I went to bed.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

If a human's life can be measured in counted coins, then that worth can be diminished, a copper at a time, until no value is left. When an old woman is worth less than the food she eats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well.

Tengan horas determinadas para el trabajo y el recreo; comprendan el valor del tiempo usándolo bien. Entonces la juventud será encantadora, la vejez traerá pocas lamentaciones y la vida será dichosa y hermosa, a pesar de la pobreza.

She was too preoccupied about appearing young, I suppose, to care about anything else, her own part included.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

But Abraham believed, therefore he was young; for he who always hopes for the best becomes old, and he who is always prepared for the worst grows old early, but he who believes preserves an eternal youth.