Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and…

“For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The Moho rang…

— Raymond Dean White

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was,…

— Elisha Gray

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

— Roy Clark

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

— Michael Caine

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our…

— Ernst Toller

My dad was a wrestler, so I grew up old school.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

— Michael Caine

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for…

— Veronica Roth

“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. But…

— George Orwell

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who…

— Stephen King

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

— Julian Barnes

“Your enemies call it comeuppance and relish the details of a drug too fine, how long you must have dangled there beside yourself. In…

— Dorothy Barresi

“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only…

— Pete Dexter

“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and…

— Herman Hesse