Old man Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image ““By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.”” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old man
“The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it’s the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.” — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
“He's old now. He goes about gathering up the women who loved him and getting a kick out of their consternation and vague distress.… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.” — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it'll never be like that again, and they'll… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.” — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
“I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“You’d better keep her tied.” “Why?” A yawn stretched Hunter’s dark face. “Because she’s looking skittish.” “She’s naked.” Sheathing his knife, Hunter flopped on… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of a old man, he wants his home and securities, he wants to… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
The true love suddenly broken, not only but like the old man who has lost the stick — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
