Quotes About Aging

#1. 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.

Nicole Kidman

#2. There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

#3. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

#4. In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem. What irritates me a little is growing fatter. It irritates me that if I eat what I want to eat, it shows.

Isabella Rossellini

#5. You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it

John McCain

#6. When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

Mehmet Oz

#7. We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It's no matter that this dye doesn't fool you. My lady, you don't dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Luigi Pirandello

#8. Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Warren Beatty

#9. If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.

Jean Sasson

#10. I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#11. There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.

Brooke Waggoner

#12. Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

Emma Woolf

#14. There is some unwritten code or law that all women or means must be into Hinduism or Mysticism or psychics by the time they reach fifty years of age. The male equivalent is ornate guns. All aging women find psychics, all aging males find gun cabinets and expensive brandy. There's your truth.

Nathan Yocum

#15. Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

Janet Yellen

#16. I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

Tony Stewart

#17. Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

S. Jay Olshansky

#18. Good fat contains essential fatty acids, which improve your skin quality, slow down aging, and reduce inflammation.

Marcie Tenenbaum

#19. And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#20. The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Daisaku Ikeda

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

Eartha Kitt

#22. As a nation, we have never embraced aging,

Denise Lewis

#23. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#24. I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.

Ross Macdonald

#25. 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.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#26. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.

Joan Didion

#27. I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#28. Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Jim Cooper

#29. The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Toshihiko Fukui

#30. Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.

Dennis Vickers

#31. Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Carrie Fisher

#32. Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Sandhya Jane

#33. Choosing is Aging.

Philippe Soupault

#34. The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

Andrew Bird

#35. If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!

Billy Graham

#36. Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply
Must take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'
Thus spake the awful aging couple
Whose heart the years had turned to rubble.
But the little children, to save any brother,
Let it in at one ear and out at the other.

Stevie Smith

#37. Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded and cheated, and beyond all the resentments that come with aging.

Ronald Rolheiser

#38. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.

Michael Dobbs

#39. Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

Anna Quindlen

#40. I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

Darren Aronofsky

#41. Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

#42. No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.

Greg Egan

#43. When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#44. I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging ... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#45. We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

Charles H. Townes

#46. Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

S. Jay Olshansky

#47. The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

Dov Davidoff

#48. Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus

#49. Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

Deepak Chopra

#50. Nobody likes the "A" word, but everyone ages. You can have an aging in place master suite that looks like a resort hotel, rather than a rehab hospital room.

Jamie Gold

#51. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#52. The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when you're graying.

Bobbi Brown

#53. Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds
a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Albert Camus

#54. The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

Deepak Chopra

#55. I get all fired up about aging in America.

Willard Scott

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

William Devane

#57. But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathering, grandfathering." "But,

Irvin D. Yalom

#58. It seemed as if, once aging led to debility, it was impossible for anyone to be happy. *

Atul Gawande

#59. Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.

Brent Green

#60. The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

Oprah Winfrey

#61. But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worthy of headline billing or thought to be of much interest to anyone but those directly involved.

Mohsin Hamid

#62. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Delta Burke

#63. It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

Zoltan Istvan

#64. I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

Eric Avery

#65. The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

Laurie Glimcher

#66. Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

Auliq Ice

#67. Rabbit and Owl are aging bachelors whose respective megalomania and fussiness are tempered only by their mutual friendship, of which the less said, the better.

Frederick C. Crews

#68. Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Deepak Chopra

#69. Aging and death is what happens to everybody.

Young Jean Lee

#70. I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and ... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

Fred Willard

#71. People start aging from early, very early, on. Gradually it spreads over their entire body like a stain that cannot be wiped away.

Haruki Murakami

#72. Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

Paul Stamets

#73. On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Mark Steyn

#74. The two best anti-aging agents: humor and a sense of wonder.

Marty Rubin

#75. The signs of psychic draining - we call aging.

Frederick Lenz

#76. You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

S. Jay Olshansky

#77. While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

Ron Kind

#78. Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?

David Mitchell

#79. I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Reeve

#80. When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.

Connie Sellecca

#81. Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.

Zadie Smith

#82. The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

Jewel Staite

#83. By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

Wendy Lustbader

#84. The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

Ron White

#85. The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.

Deepak Chopra

#86. In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

#87. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.

Robert D. McFadden

#88. We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

Pope Francis

#89. it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers.

Brandon Sanderson

#90. Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

Martha Stewart

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

Courteney Cox

#92. My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

Annette Bening

#93. I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.

Sharon Stone

#94. 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

#95. Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.

Kirk Caldwell

#96. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#97. The four signs of aging "Courage, Strength, Wisdom & I don't remember...

Anne Reese

#98. Aging is not kind to anyone.

Steven Magee

#99. The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

S. Jay Olshansky

#100. Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.

Adriana Lima