Old People With Canes Quotes & Sayings

Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz). — Peter McWilliams

And he missed her all over his body. He missed her like crazycakes. But he felt, in the throbbing missing piece inside him, that she didn't long for him like that. — John Green

She first one on the production team to die will be the editor. — Alexandra Oliva

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. — Myriam Miedzian

It is so dark now with the sadness of
people
they were tricked, they were taught to expect the
ultimate when nothing is
promised
now young girls weep alone in small rooms
old men angrily swing their canes at
visions as
ladies comb their hair as
ants search for survival
history surrounds us
and our lives
slink away
in
shame. — Charles Bukowski

I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen. — Najaf Mazari

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs. — Jamelia

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith. — Vera Farmiga

All they wanted of me was one belch of affirmation and I'd bellow it out loud. Yes! Yes! YES! That was all anyone wanted of us, that we should be heard and not seen, and then heard only in one big optimistic chorus of yassuh, yassuh, yassuh! — Ralph Ellison

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it. — E. M. Forster

A field tends of itself to multiply. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on. — Noah Hawley

When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something. — Lynn Coady