Quotes About Aging

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.