Quotes
Quotes about Age
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage.]
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." [Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una, Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]
Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.
Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penalties have been caused by .. depleted uranium 80 times the normal level.. which has generated cancer in Iraqis as well as Italian American and other troops . compulsory vaccines from the warprofiteering pharmaco-military industrial complex . Lariam, ostensibly antimalarial drug made by Roche which have killed 4 wives whose husbands had drug caused rage. . heat rising to 137 degrees and melting soap as well as turning metal soda pop cans on a loading dock into chambers in which Nutra Sweet becomes more toxic . Baghdad Boils, face lesions, blamed on sand flies... food poisoning deaths from heat on military packagedmeals . ' friendly fire' . lack of protective gear . helicopter malfunctions in Chinook, Osprey and Black Hawk helicopters . underfunded hospital system . those hostile to the invaders and occupiers of their own Iraq.
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee.
So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
