#old

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#bad #bread #eating #ever #food

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#get #happenstance #helped #how #life

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#i #i am #now #older #wanted

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clues #compressed #fist #hold #i

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. ↗

— Augustus

#man #men #old #old man #old men

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#gold #into #lead #often #silver

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

— Ausonius

#brings #count #happiness #know #let us

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#bottom #class #constantly #even #gardening

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#dvd #grease #hear #i #i do

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with. ↗

— Picabo Street

#cross #doing #family #fit #i