Age Quotes - Page 98

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

I feel the world is over-saturated with [brand] products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.