Clara-gardner Quote by Cynthia Hand

“There I go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.”

— Cynthia Hand

“[Wind in your sails, a parrot on your shoulder… It’s pirate time!]”

— O. Penn-Coughin

“What do you mean old? Life begins at sixty!”

— Constance Hampton Jones

“We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty,…

— Christina Daley

“Pirate Frank. Walks the Plank.”

— Dave Horowitz

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Bah. What’s a little water to a pirate? (Barney) A bout of pneumonia if he’s not careful. (Morgan)”

— Kinley MacGregor

“Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. “The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty…

— Scott Lynch

“Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well. Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.”

— Dan Brown

“She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines…

— David James Poissant

“... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.”

— Julian Barnes

“And exactly how old are you MacRieve ?" "Twelve hundreds, give or take." "Great Hekate, you're a relic. Don't you have a museum exhibit…

— Kresley Cole