Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.