Old People – Page 2

Anytime a child is

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he’s the One. Ernest Gaines

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age. Erik Erikson

I initially told people

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a Rockette. I didn’t really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type. Erica Schroeder

certain very old people

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die. Erica Jong

Every time I think

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. Elvis Presley

They think old people

They think old people are lame. But they’re not. They’re awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It’s because they’ve lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don’t crumble, not even as they inch toward death. Ellen Hopkins

With age come the

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We saw Time\\’s varied

We saw Time’s varied traces Were deep on every hand – Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of … Read more

George Macdonald said, \\’If

George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. Elisabeth Elliot

Beautiful old people are

Beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt