Aging Quotes

• Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

  

  Michael Fossel
  • Aging
  • Setting
  • Fable

• Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

  

  Henry Taube
  • Children
  • Age
  • Science

• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • Age
  • Bolts

• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Technology
  • Aging
  • Gene

• I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Youth
  • Sadness

• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Running
  • Eye
  • Failing

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

  

  William Devane
  • Faces
  • Amount
  • Destroying

• I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

  

  Camille Desmoulins
  • Age
  • Three
  • Thirty

• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Tree

• When I was your age, television was called books.

  

  William Goldman
  • Book
  • Age
  • Television

• As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physically challenged or enable the elderly to continue driving longer. This will be vital as many nations experience an aging population.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Driving
  • Aging

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

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Trying
  • Aging

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

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Change
  • Leaving
  • Behinds

• I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.

  

  Alex Smith
  • End
  • Aging
  • Quarterback

• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Trying
  • Speak
  • Communication

• Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Done
  • Eye
  • Doe

• 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.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Life
  • Four
  • Aging

• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Believe
  • True
  • Age

• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Age
  • Justice

• There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty

• As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Done
  • Age
  • Eye

• A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Rich

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