Quotes About Aging

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

You have to stay active; it keeps the bones flexible.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

When I was younger, I was mousey brown and started putting in highlights with each child. By the time I had my third baby, I was pretty much a blonde, and I stayed that way until I was in my late 50s.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I'm staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.

Nobody stays young forever.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

Ideally, I want to get out of the sport at least when I'm 30-31. I don't want to be one of those guys who stays around too long, so I want to get as many fights in as I can.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Actors, when they're older, still get a chance to let off steam or something and work things off on stage.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

Indeed, over two-thirds of Kansas counties lost population between 1980 and 2000, some by as much as 25 percent. I am told that there are entire towns in the western part of the state getting by on Social Security; no one is left there but the aged. There are no doctors, no shoe stores. One town out here even sold its public school on eBay.

Deleting welfare didn't eliminate poverty itself. We might as well have expected to conquer aging by overturning Social Security.

It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death…

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,In blast-beruffled plume.

Ah, no; the years, the years;Down their chiseled names the raindrop plows.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

envisioned them in rocking chairs forty years down

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.