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Quotes About Aging

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
~ David Attenborough
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
~ Gary Shteyngart
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
~ Geddy Lee
The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.
~ Jackie Coogan
As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.
~ Joo Won
I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.
~ David Ignatius
After the age of 40, human beings are prone to various infection, diseases and physical damage. Engaging in regular exercise is the only way to combat such issues.
~ Vivek
You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
~ Felix Dennis
The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.
~ Steve Nicol
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
~ John Scott
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
~ Kevin Nealon
When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
~ Christie Brinkley
The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
~ Bee Wilson
We want to be proud when we look back on our history when we grow old.
~ Jennie
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
~ George Clooney
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
~ Issey Miyake
I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.
~ Rex Harrison
It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.
~ Kris Kristofferson
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
~ Jerry Stiller
I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.
~ Tony Bennett
The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
~ Marlo Thomas
Just the place to bury a crock of gold,' said Sebastian. 'I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o'clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.
~ Evelyn Waugh