George H. W. Bush Quotes

Being old is such a treat!

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

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.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

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

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I love going for walks and like to do fun active things outdoors.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.