Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Old folks are the nation.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

The old are in a second childhood.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

Old age is life's parody.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.