Richard Russo Quotes

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

Being seventy is not a sin.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Dignity and plenty instead of humility and poverty.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Actors are bedbugs in front of the nation. We don't have any worth.

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.