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“Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.”

Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

“There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.”

Children Has Beens Country Enough Dream Age Suffering Dies Nations Grows Chance Old Age Our Country Elders Indignity

Book:Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

Source: Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.”

Children Ends Home Body Age Pain Suffering House Left Memories Rooms Old Age Your Children Handful Fading Pain And Suffering

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.”

Men Children Dream Age Three Walks Old Age Old Man Leafs Daylight Fading Frail

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides

“Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.”

Men Firsts Children Moments Eye Age Morning Eternity Old Age His Eyes Be A Man

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.”

Children Eye Age Young Grows Hair Despair Late Old Age Immortality Curse Thirty Fifty Too Late Gray Eighty Old You Never Too Late

Author:Lyman Abbott