Quotes of: Old-lady Keyword

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

The Summer I Learned to Fly

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

And the Mountains Echoed

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

The Museum of Innocence

[..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.

My Name is Legion

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

Marked

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

Messenger

It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.

Matched

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

If you desire the magical powers that led the 808 Tanuki, which are trapped in the old cave of Kumayama, say the words, .

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 05

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

A Note in the Margin

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

One Day

She could be the love of my life, and I just met her. I’m 31 years old. She’s late.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I’m twice as old as she is tall. She’s half my age in height. We have a David and Goliath kind of love.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

Little Dorrit

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

The Lonesome Gods

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

You sleep okay, sweetie?” “Miss my teddy,” Billie replied. Personally, I thought Detective Mitch Lawson was far superior to a tiny pink teddy bear but I wasn’t six years old.

Law Man