Willard Scott Quotes

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

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

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

In America, the old are neglected.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

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

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

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

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

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