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Old Quotes by May Sarton
- Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will…
- The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the…
- Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
- I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
- Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
- For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
- Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially…
- It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
- Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do…
- It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire…
- Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
More Old Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe