All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she mus...
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do n...
There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving...
Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed...
Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of “manufacturing a controlled substance.�...
The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, li...
Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next ...
...Imagine having to ask whether you can go barefoot or not... But she remembers similar requests and prohibitions now, from twenty years and more back. "The childhood years are the best years of your life..." Whoever coined that was an unmitigated f...
