35 quotes found
“Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.”
“Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.”
“I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?”
“What kind of country has this become? Decent people cant do anything without being watched.”
“What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.”
“My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.”
“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under societys so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know Im not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the ...”
“Just make sure the day doesnt pass without sayin whats in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and theyre gone forever.”
“As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.”
“Its a funny thing, one day youre living and the next day youre not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I dont even know if I would want ...”
“I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.”
“The world bein so small aint always a good thing for those of us who aint searchin for new and different stuff.”
“One of the worst things Ive learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you dont like than there was when you were younger and you cant do nothin about it.”
“Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.”
“Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.”
“Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think thin...”
“The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up a...”
“What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.”
“I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.”
“Its as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upo...”
“I dont know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politicians job is about hiding the truth and foo...”
“How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didnt start for reasons were too devious to tell the truth about? Its way too easy for governments to spend other peoples blood. Maybe o...”
“As I have aged, Ive been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.”
