I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five. —From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven More about this quote Tags: satisfaction death old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “old age” I used to say, watching two elderly women crossing the street in flowered hats, holding each other's arms, "Look at those cute old ladies." I didn't mind the stereotypes that pepper movies and television shows. Now old people are no longer cute or mean or silly or wise to me. They are people, in all their broken fullness. Despite the glitches in faculties and functioning, anyone who's lived that long has learned something the rest of us don't know. —Tarn Wilson More about this quote Tags: humanity old age fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: now generations experience world youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. —Maurice Chevalier More about this quote Tags: age death old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. —Saki More about this quote Tags: hope memory old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: history humor time age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I used to say, watching two elderly women crossing the street in flowered hats, holding each other's arms, "Look at those cute old ladies." I didn't mind the stereotypes that pepper movies and television shows. Now old people are no longer cute or mean or silly or wise to me. They are people, in all their broken fullness. Despite the glitches in faculties and functioning, anyone who's lived that long has learned something the rest of us don't know. —Tarn Wilson More about this quote Tags: humanity old age fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: now generations experience world youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. —Maurice Chevalier More about this quote Tags: age death old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. —Saki More about this quote Tags: hope memory old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: history humor time age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email