Rita Mae Brown Quotes

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

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

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

I feel a lot older than I am.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.