#age

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two... 2. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent. 3. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained. 4. There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there... ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#age

Sex and battle were each dangerous in their own ways. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sex #age

The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day. ↗

— Anna Paszkiewicz

#mysery #silent-pain #age

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. ↗

— Colum McCann

#age

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#revolution #age

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know. ↗

— Sharon Lee

#knowledge #age

How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#age

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.) ↗

— Nora Ephron

#old-age #age

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#loss #meaning #age