Dizzy Dean Quotes

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

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.

If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.