Quotes About Wisdom

My grandparents are amazing and most people love their grandparents. It's no different with me.

I love, love, love my grandparents.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

I don't take anything for granted anymore, I'll tell you that.

The older you get, you might think you have it all figured out, but you are never too old to work on fundamentals. You can't take anything for granted in this business.

If I've learned anything, it's that you can't take anything for granted.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.

Sometimes I feel very bullish about it - this is the age that I am, this is the way that I look, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm grateful that I've lived this long.

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

It's very gratifying sometimes to make yourself the butt of the joke because it bursts your bubble.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

I've gained a seriousness that has to do with a certain perspective, a gratitude for being able to see the importance of things. And that lends itself a gravity to everything. And that is something that I sort of carry as a weight but a good weight inside of me.