Quotes 841 till 860 of 1208.
-
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
-
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
-
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
-
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39 -
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
-
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
-
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
-
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
-
The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad.The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad -
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
-
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198 -
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
-
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
-
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
Speech, September 2004 -
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
-
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
-
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
All old-school famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 43)
