Quotes About Aging

And we'll just sit on the porch and get old together—and we won't care if we're fat and old and worn out because we'll love each other too much to care.

Making smart choices in your 50s and 60s will give you the gift of not having to worry about finances in your 70s, 80s, and 90s.

The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

We're saved somewhat by Google. You can - when you're all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can't remember the name of - you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

I think using anti-aging products really helps; the sooner the better, you know?

I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Once you get to 22 or 23, you're already old school. It's the bubblegum ones that buy records, have fun, party. You get older, you get sophisticated, and you don't go buy no records too much.

We were starting to get old before our time. I'm 10 years older than Kingy, but we'd both begun to shuffle, the knees were sore.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

I imagine I'll retire mid-performance. I'll say, 'Sorry, everyone, I can't do this anymore. I must have suddenly aged.' Then I'll walk off. Yes, I'm sure that's how.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

As I get older, I find the things that I thought would be sorted by now aren't. The idea of writing stuff like that for a much older generation was incredibly appealing.

I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.