Cicely Tyson Quotes

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Aging is a synonym for living.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Getting older is a fact of life.

Before you know it, I'm not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We're all getting older, so I'm trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that's being thrown at me.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.