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Old People Quotes (page 3)

And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps, And here you are the mothers' laps."- Song of Myself: 6 Walt Whitman
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. Leo Tolstoy
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "These old people. These human ruins."
These old people. These human ruins. Chuck Palahniuk
This was most alarming, what sort of terrible toil had deranged the poor woman? Would I also have to work day and night till I couldn't stop talking? Perhaps they made her shovel coal for a huge furnace, probably they kept a private crematorium, old people do keep dying off. Maybe they had a chain gang too and we would have to chop stones and sing sea shanties (this would explain why she wore the yachting cap.) Leonora Carrington
I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!"And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them. Ray Bradbury
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of..."
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. Daphne du Maurier
Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as "harsh reality. Paulo Coelho
Three days after that, the funeral was held, and while riding from the church to the cemetery Ava looked out the widow and noticed that everyone she passed was crying. "Old people, college students, even the colored men at the gas station-- the soul brothers, or whatever we're supposed to call them now."It was such an outdated term, I just had to use it myself. "How did the soul brothers know your father?"That's just it," she said. "No one told us until after the burial that Kennedy had been... David Sedaris
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad. Rita Mae Brown
We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over. Thurston Moore
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. Ernest Gaines
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again! Mercedes McCambridge
William Steig quote: "I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when..."
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. William Steig
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. Ian Hislop

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