42 Quotes About Old-man

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.

Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?

Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.

In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and befriends the new to fall into place, with refined maturity and greater understanding and cultured admiration. It's simply pure Magic.

His body was shriveled like a leaf that has left its tree and that has been curled by time about its natural lines.

Antonio José Bolívar se ocupaba de mantenerlos a raya, en tanto los colonos destrozaban la selva construyendo la obra maestra del hombre civilizando: el desierto.

Muchas veces escuchó decir que con los años llega la sabiduría, y él esperó, confiando en que tal sabiduría le entragara lo que más deseaba: ser capaz de guiar el rumbo de los recuerdos y no caer en las trampas de éstos tendían a menudo.