“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.” KnowsFeelsShouldStillsPoliticalDifficultNaturalFiveMiddleBabyProfessionSeventiesStatesmenMiddle Aged Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell
“Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.” ThinkingMenGivingHeartStillsNightWalksMiddleBabyGet UpBottlesMiddle Of The NightDiapers Author:Rita Rudner
“More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenBookHelpingMiddleBabyReaderCriticsIndispensable Author:Randall Jarrell
“Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.” IfsWritingChildrenLittlesBookNightMiddleCryBabyDependsBedWillpowerWriting A BookMiddle Of The NightRearing A Child Author:Annie Dillard
“I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.” PeopleLittlesLastsMotherStarsBornRoomsMiddleRocksBabyGrewWalkingGrew UpRock N RollRock StarLiving RoomHendrixPromoters Author:Ari Up
“Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.” ChildrenEvilAttentionShareCrazyMiddleBabyIraqIranLionsKoreaNorth KoreaAxesMiddle ChildOldest Child Author:John Oliver
“At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].” MenKidsAgeRealizingAcceptingMiddleBabyFiftyFortyMortalityIgnoredMiddle AgesBoomersBaby Boomer Author:John Travolta
“It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.” KnowsLittlesReasonPlayCertainSongKnow HowMiddleHugeBabySingingSurpriseResponseNutsExpectingShiver Author:John Britt Daniel
“There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.” WantAmericaWishWaterWorryGrowingMiddleBabyLovelyBeachVillageRetirementFewerMexicoWashingMiddle AgedPristineSan DiegoTurds Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.” BodyKidsGirlNamesParentBoysMiddleBabyKneesVoidButtonsBellyPubertyBaby BoyBelly Buttons Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's absolutely the same story that most people have in this [film] business, they're the middle children. I've encountered some people, and it's weird to me, that they were the youngest in their family. I don't understand how that works, they got the attention.” PeopleChildrenEnoughStoriesBigsLastsFilmAttentionMiddleBabyClassicBig FamiliesMiddle Child Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!” KnowsChildrenPlayMotherLeftAttentionTroubleMiddleBrotherBabyOlder BrotherMiddle Child Author:John C. Reilly
“Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.” KindRunningFightingMiddleBabyBusyGradesToo BusyBrianTroublemakerTrouble MakerRunning Wild Author:Dennis Wilson
“Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.” FirstsLastsMiddleDyingJudgingBabyBreathsGuiltInnocenceFrozenCrystalsMiddle AgedFleasVendorsFlea MarketsGavel Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.” MiddlePaintingBabyAngelParksMiddle AgedTrailersTrailer ParkCherubs Book:The lightning thief Source: The lightning thief