Aging Bodies Quotes

#1. Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.

Richard Lamm

#2. Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Richard Lamm

#3. For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

F. Sionil Jose

#4. We watch our bodies and our brains slow down as younger bodies and brains zip past us, and we just accept it, not realizing there is a whole world offering to sharpen and improve us. We simply need to look for it.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

#5. The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness.

Fred Rogers

#6. In the network's mind there are no limits.

Dr. John

#7. All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Peter Carey

#8. I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#9. We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.

Atul Gawande

#10. Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?

Carrie Jones

#11. Time erodes us all.

Meg Rosoff

#12. Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

Nick Swisher