Aging Quotations

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

We are proud to be teaming up with Mr. Glenn and the Glenn Foundation. Like us, Paul is dedicated to finding the molecular answers to the aging process so we can understand the mechanisms of normal aging and develop interventions to delay its onset and decline, thereby extending the healthful years of human life.

We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, employers, husbands and children while our own voices were small or muffled or totally ignored. Aging Out Loud gives us permission to not only listen to that voice but heed its warnings, laugh at its jokes and follow its directions, without guilt and without looking back.

We're in much better shape to confront the aging challenge than the countries of continental Europe or Japan. But good shape is a relative statement.

Until now, Prism users have been faced with a difficult choice continue using an aging ERP system with limited support and no plans for future development, or invest considerable time and resources to converting to a new solution.

We write about the stuff that inspires us: relationships, traveling, aging and living in general. Those are the things that define people as they are.

With the onset of the aging demographic revolution, it is essential that the general public begin planning for their future care requirements. Unfortunately, most of us pay little attention to the cost of such care until we or our loved ones need it.

Life, the permission to know death.

Now is the time to become a myth.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

Old age is a shipwreck.