Age Quote by William Carlos Williams Download Open image “Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.” — William Carlos Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Bare trees Bird Flight Old age Skimming Snow Tree Trees
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest. — The Talmud Copy Share Image
In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds… — Paul Bartsch Copy Share Image
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams 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
