Quotes About Aging

I am no longer young, so I really have to be patient with my body.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

I like patterns, anything fun. I think as we get older, we tend to get boring with our clothes.

My plan is to ride out my 30s with 'handsome man' parts, hit 40 and take some time off to have some kids, and then come back as Paul Giamatti.

If you don't love your job, you can't maintain the discipline in playing that many years. It starts with the love, discipline and taking care of your body. Understanding the older you get, you have to pay attention to every single detail.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

When I go gray, I'm not going to be able to see it that much. I won't be salt and pepper: I'll be like salt and the white pepper you can buy.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.