Humourous-memoir Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image ““I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.”” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humourous-memoir
“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.” — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
“However old we become, there will always remain some things young within ourselves!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient… — Mary-Rose MacColl Copy Share Image
“ (...) You're very young." "No one's young anymore. Anyone who's survived this long is ancient." There's a smile pulling up one corner of his mouth.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“It seems to be a universal generality that while the old want to reminisce, the young are too busy living to bother.” — Doc Sanborn Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me” — Don Darkes Copy Share Image
“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.” — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit by a… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
“I do like a bit of flyin'. Comedy flying is one of my favourite things. I think it rates up there with a neck… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
