#old

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#child #father #him #holding #i

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store. ↗

— Martin Lel

#depending #families #family #got #grocery

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. ↗

— John Lennon

#buddha #call #god #gone #i

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#death #dreams #expectations #failed #i

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits

I love to both give and receive very old books. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#both #give #i #i love #love

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#age #ethic #everyone #gets #never

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#am #been #court #encourage #feminine

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#constitutional #copyright #culture #development #distribution