Age Quote by Nellie L. McClung Download Open image “The middle years of life come on like thunder.” — Nellie L. McClung ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Life Middle Middle ages Thunder Years Years of life
Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life’s dramas rarely look as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the cold front of demographics meets the warm front of unrealized dreams, the result will be a thunderstorm of purpose the likes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up…It's going to blow away all… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Thunder in the sky is Holy-angered demons glory the Earth turnin for the worst like a horror story — C-DASH Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung 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 carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
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 constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
