Growing old Quote by Jan Karon Download Open image ““That’s why growing old together is lovely. You have someone to complain to.”” — Jan Karon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing old Growing Old Together
“Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You can see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“I guess that's the thing about getting older. You realize your differences can be good things. Not just bad ones.” — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“I suppose that there's quite a difference between growing old and growing up.” — Emory Sharplin Copy Share Image
“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the smallest things… — Saidi Mdala Copy Share Image
“I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you’ve gone through a bagful.”… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I get from reading in bad light – A kind of measles of the spirit A mumps of the psyche, A disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking… — Billy Collins Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she shed to… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. — George Clooney Copy Share
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share
