#age

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#loss #time #youth #age

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#aggression #bomb #communists #drawn #frankly

It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission." "Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said. "Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me. ↗

— Anne Stuart

#love #proposal #romance #age

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#been #dead #had #mozart #sobering

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#fear #humour #phobias #twitter #age

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. ↗

— Cloris Leachman

#build #elderly #his #homes #kid

I am the Love Camel of Llama Land. Come, hop on my hump and let me lead you to water. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer. ↗

— Amanda Lear

#best #given #has-been #i #i am

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#clearly #diction #early #early age #english