Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat?” “So did the six-year-old girl, ma’am. Actually, she beat the instructor also.

Max

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

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

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

La pista di sabbia

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

The Lucy Variations

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

Strega Nona

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?

The Sunless Parlour

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The Old Man and the Sea

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

The Robber Bride

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A Woman of No Importance

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Enjoy every second—even if at first you only win second. Keep competing until all your competition has died of old age and you are the winner by default.

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