Stan Mikita Quotes

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

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

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I'm an older generation.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

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

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

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

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

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.

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.