Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,…

— Leigh Hunt

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are…

— Evan Esar

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do…

— Barbra Streisand

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

— Glenda Jackson

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing…

— George Clooney

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

— August Strindberg

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how…

— Marisha Pessl

Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in…

— Bruce Catton

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I…

— Billy Collins

“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from…

— Anonymous