There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.
Thomm QuackenbushOnly little boys and old men sneer at love.
Louis AuchinclossTags: age love passion sentimental
Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.
Lesley PearseTags: age suffering old georgia widom lesley pearse
Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days dressed for the part in that curious but endearing uniform which is now known to us only through music-hall. And our two old neighbours, when setting forth on errands, always prepared themselves scrupulously so. They wore high laced boots and long muslin dresses, beaded chokers and candlewick shawls, crowned by tall poke bonnets tied with trailing ribbons and smothered with inky sequins. They looked like starlings, flecked with jet, and they walked in a tinkle of darkness.
Those severe and similar old bodies enthralled me when they dressed that way. When I finally became King (I used to think) I would command a parade of grandmas, and drill them, and march them up and down - rank upon rank of hobbling boots, nodding bonnets, flying shawls, and furious chewing faces. They would be gathered from all the towns and villages and brought to my palace in wagon-loads. No more than a monarch’s whim, of course, like eating cocoa or drinking jellies; but far more spectacular any day than those usual trudging guardsmen.
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
David RakoffI am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later. I don’t think it is years themselves, or the disintegration of the body. Most of our bodies are better taken care of and better-looking than ever. What it is, is what we know, now that in spite of ourselves we have stopped to think about it. It is not only that we know that love ends, children are stolen, parents die feeling that their lives have been meaningless. It is not only that, by this time, a lot of acquaintances and friends have died and all the others are getting ready to sooner or later. It is more that the barriers between the circumstances of oneself and of the rest of the world have broken down, after all—after all that schooling, all that care. Lord, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me. But when you are thirty-three, or thirty-five, the cup must come around, cannot pass from you, and it is the same cup of pain that every mortal drinks from. Dana cried over Mrs. Hilton. My eyes filled during the nightly news. Obviously we were grieving for ourselves, but we were also thinking that if they were feeling what we were feeling, how could they stand it? We were grieving for them, too. I understand that later you come to an age of hope, or at least resignation. I suspect it takes a long time to get there.
Jane SmileyTags: age growing-older grief
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Doris LessingA young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.
Israelmore AyivorTags: honesty age purpose integrity children youth opinion child old truthfulness positive qualities sincerity leadership influence honest leader lead elderly potential universal teacher example father leaders function followers election grey-hair truthful faithful old-man inspire position human-being pastor self-made servant sincere elder commander officer elect manager popular-opinion israelmore-ayivor true-leaders true-leadership faithfully human-face lead-people leadership-qualities self-leaders self-leadership true-leader appoint appointed appointment elected examplary ordain a-child a-young-child elderly-person enthrone influencial
The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees--a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform like caterpillars into butterflies. They become whole new people as if overnight.
Michael J. SullivanI have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
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