I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
Bill GatesSometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn MonroeDon’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!
Maya AngelouWell, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Christopher HitchensGolf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. ForbesGrowing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
Maya AngelouTreat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
ChanakyaMy grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny YoungmanFeels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam SandlerIt is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles SpurgeonI will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis BaconNevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann HesseWhen I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
Taylor SwiftI still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.
Taylor SwiftGetting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.
Haruki MurakamiFor years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret AtwoodMortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.
Keanu ReevesAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaI am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily DickinsonIt’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Bob DylanMy father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
Alexander the GreatAll my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
Clint EastwoodPrime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.
Clint EastwoodI never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
Karl LagerfeldWith mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William ShakespeareThe language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David ThoreauOften I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.
Terry PratchettI don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles BukowskiThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriThe future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James BaldwinEducation is the best provision for old age.
AristotleNobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘
Joyce MeyerI wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
Dolly PartonThe moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. RowlingWhen I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
Bill GatesI guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.
Hunter S. ThompsonLife’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinI was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
Paul AusterWhen I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
Billy GrahamIt is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHow do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.
Keanu ReevesI have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius CaesarHow incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LewisAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAs we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAfter all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhat old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David ThoreauEverything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David BowieIt’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfIt’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.
AuroraI’m just a little kid from Akron.
LeBron JamesHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightWhen I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.
RihannaIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert HubbardNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander HamiltonIt was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.
Robert KiyosakiAt my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
Taylor Swift