Anthony Kiedis Quotes

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

[My mom] is someone who just has boundless energy. I think she's about 84 years young right now.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

You reach a certain age, and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90.

I'm going to be that little old lady that's just, like, walking around and just, like, full of energy, probably with bright red hair or something crazy.

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.