Quote by Philip Pullman

“her.” “That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young…

— Philip Pullman

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the…

— Philip Pullman

“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell you that…

— Helen Callaghan

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older…

— Alice Hoffman

“Eliminate the Fear of Old Age by reaching a decision to accept it not as a handicap, but as a great blessing which carries…

— Napoleon Hill

“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although frightening, this…

— Alfred Nestor

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of…

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.”

— Jonathan Carroll