#old

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#arrived #aware #became #class #comes

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ↗

— George Eliot

#fibers #friends #how #knit #love

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clothed #cold #every #fed #final

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. ↗

— Damon Wayans

#first #had #i #job #old

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#always #been #behind #dad #decisions

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#degrees #discovered #i #old #play