12 quotes found
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
“What young people didnt know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies...”
“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more ...”
“Thats the trouble with you young people. Saying young as though it was a bad thing.Youre in too darn much of a hurry to notice.Notice what, exactly?The difference, shed replied slowly, as if I were...”
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.”
“What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodie...”
“That’s the trouble with you young people.” Saying young as though it was a bad thing.“You’re in too darn much of a hurry to notice.”“Notice what, exactly?”“The difference,” she’d replied slowly, as...”
