Cyril Connolly Quotes

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

It feels great to know that someone from the younger generation is following me.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Elders are the books of the young.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.

It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

Somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.