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Quotes About Aging

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
~ Frances Conroy
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
~ Gary Oldman
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.
~ Unknown
When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
~ Jermain Defoe
The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.
~ Philip Roth
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
~ Manuel Puig
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.
~ Big Daddy Kane
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
~ Euripides
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
~ Timothy J. Russert
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
~ Euripides
Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
~ Dhani Harrison
Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
~ Gloria Naylor
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
~ Pico Iyer
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
~ Ron Chernow
Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.
~ Norman Reedus
Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.
~ Vin Scully
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
~ Leighton Meester
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
~ William Allen White
At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?
~ Anna Kournikova
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
~ Paolo Sorrentino