Neville Marriner Quotes

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.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

Old age is a woman's hell.

I am not doddery... doddery I am not!

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

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

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

If I really lose the rest of my memory, don't let my kids spend a lot of money to put me in an expensive care facility. If they treat me very well there, I will not remember it, and if they treat me badly I will not remember that either. So it really won't matter, will it?

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

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.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?