Born Before 1969 Quotes & Sayings

She looks like a symbol of something. A certain time, a certain place. A certain state of mind. She's like a spirit that's sprung up from a happy chance encounter. An eternal, naive innocence, never to be marred, floats around her like spores in spring. Time had come to a standstill in this photograph. 1969 - a scene from long before I was born. — Haruki Murakami

Valar morghulis.
Yes. All men must die, but we are not men. — George R R Martin

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror. — Condoleezza Rice

[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. — Jean Genet

But - " yelped Twizbang, "Greydor will eat us! — Richard Due

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me. — Shaquille O'Neal

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set. — Richie Hawtin

You can't evade a thing. Those who try to get around it are weak. Those who meet it gallantly are strong. So many women try to dodge life. They don't economize because it's inconvenient. They don't work because it's tiring. They don't have a child because it's painful. They don't look at the dead because it's saddening. Face them all, Laura. Face them squarely and meet them gallantly... as your grandmother did. For every one of the old experiences will be there... birth... marriage... death... disappointment... grief... little joys... little sorrows. You'll have to meet them all. It's part of the story... — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Progress of life is impossible without breaking the rules. — Debasish Mridha

Charlotte came in herself, like a big bridal edifice in her veil and other lace, carrying long-stemmed flowers. With her there wasn't much hiding of the behind-the-scenes of life to keep a man in the bonds of love, as Lucretius advises when he tells you to make allowances for mortality. You only had to see her practical mouth to know everything about mortality was admitted in advance, though she did for form's sake all that other women do. Her frankness gave her a kind of nobility. — Saul Bellow

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time. — Susan Orlean

I'm scared," she said.
"Of me?" His voice was full of sorrow.
"Of everything. — E. Mellyberry

Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want. — Steven Redhead