George Burns Quotes

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

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

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've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

I'm a grandmother.

When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families.

I can't wait to be a grandfather.

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.

I don't want to get into a debate. I have never talked about my first marriage for that reason. I don't think it would be fair to my daughter. I don't think it would be fair to my second wife. That's the past.

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise.

I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.