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“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”

“The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.”

Men Feels Children Grows Wind Kissing Thee Breathing Dry Temples Silver Old Man Curls

Author:Bear Bryant

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source: Collected Poems

“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

“Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.”

Men Children Hard Dream Light Old Man

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”

“Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.”

Men Way Children Faces Happened Shots Old Man Flags American Flag

Author:Billy Joel

“Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart Children Long Seems Age Waiting Born Perfect Blood Mankind Cold Edges Bones Cells Each Day Companion Old Man Refugee Deliverance Delayed Perfect Love

Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings