Elizabeth Moon Quotes

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

I quite like being old.

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

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

I like gettin' old.

Growing older doesn't bother me.

I'm an older generation.

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

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

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

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

I used to think 63 was old.

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.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

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

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

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I'm old, not dead.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.