aging Quotes

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

I can't remember names and things.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Age considers; youth ventures.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.

Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.