Patty Duke Quotes

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.