Golda Meir Quotes

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

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

I quite like being old.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.