Ruth Bernhard Quotes

I used to think 63 was old.

I quite like being old.

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'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.'

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

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

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

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

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

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

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.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Being seventy is not a sin.

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

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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

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

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

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

I'm old, not dead.

Aging is a synonym for living.

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.