Kelvin Sampson Quotes

Some feel old at 45.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

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

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

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 feel old.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

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

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

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.'

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Being seventy is not a sin.