Samuel Daniel Quotes

I feel old.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

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.'

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

We're not getting any younger.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

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.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.