#old

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#get #i #just #knit #older

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#black #called #christian #claim #dear

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#around #beach #before #him #house

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#being #between #cross #i #i remember

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#farmer #kill #lightning #old #old age

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#angels #cannot #confucius #earth #heaven

Man dies of cold, not of darkness. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#cold #darkness #dies #man

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#kiss #kissing #love #most #mothers