A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made… — Bible Copy Share Image
“I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in… — Gabriel Bá Copy Share Image
Take hold of this (charm) that subjects to immortality (life), may thy life unto old age not be cut off! I bring… — Atharva Veda Copy Share Image
“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“White hair. She remembers one of her bosses, a middle-aged man who used to say how he longed to see a former… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army. 'Where… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go… — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
The mind is totally attached to Maya; the mortal has forgotten his fear of old age and death. Gazing upon his family,… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that… — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
“Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have loved you… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too,… — Edward Beauclerk Maurice Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image