Joanna Baillie Quotes

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

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

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.