Quotes & Sayings About Getting Older Goodreads

I roll a magazine into a tube and peer at her through it as if it were a telescope...She pushes her beak into it as far as it will go, biting the empty air inside. Putting my mouth to my side of my paper telescope I boom into it: 'Hello, Mabel.' She pulls her beak free. All the feathers on her forehead are raised. She shakes her tail rapidly from side to side and shivers with happiness. — Helen Macdonald

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

I take writting as something in which you should in limited or not in limited time to create characters which the readers will like... feel compassion. — Deyth Banger

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing. — Hans F. Sennholz

Why is it amazing that I don't act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don't. — Dick Van Dyke

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. — Allan Dare Pearce

This was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces — Janet Fitch

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. — Bryant McGill

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words. — Zacky Vengeance

That He is mighty - should cause us to rejoice who tremble at our weakness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon