S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

I love getting older.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.