Quotes with years-old

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1807.

  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Source: Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Abbe Pierre Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
    Source: Alastor
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Andy Warhol Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • William Shakespeare Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Josh Billings Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aaron Eckhart Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
    Source: Bedouin Song
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Ovid Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Hodgson Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
    Ralph Hodgson
     
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