Anita Diament Quotes

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a time will come when I won't see Daniel and Allegra anymore.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

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

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

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

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

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