Age Quotes - Page 149

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.

Reason is not what decides love.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.