Age Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image “The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Age Giving Generosity Giving Giving up Giving Vanity Luxury Luxury Age Pride Vanity
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even the most… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann 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
