Bears Quote by Kate Morton

“Every elderly woman I've known has told me, at some point, and with varying degrees of wistfulness, that she's eighteen years old on the…

— Kate Morton

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors…

— C.S. Lewis

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in…

— Hermann Hesse

“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst rubble. With…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

— Winifred Holtby

“Growing old does not make us any better at loving one another or understanding the meaning of life or death. Nor does knowledge come…

— Kyung-sook Shin

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

— Keith Richards

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

— Andre Maurois