Age Quote by Bette Lord Download Open image “The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.” — Bette Lord ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Old age Wish Young Youth
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do — French Proverb Copy Share Image
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“CHILDREN see the world as a place of OPTIMISM. TEENS see the world as a place of IMAGINATION. YOUTH see the world as a… — Wisdom Ogbe Copy Share Image
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
