“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance” LifeLastsTimeTakenMinutesWindEqualFlowEternityImportanceChainsTime PassingPetalsTime PassesLife TimeOld Life Author:Benjamin Franklin
“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.” MenYearsMindFirstsCertainTakenFiveChildhoodYouthColorWindBrokenMen And WomenHorseRoundsIllThirtyDullSixtyPassiveAdolescenceConfusingMerryThirty YearsWithdrawalRoller CoasterCoastersDizzyUnexplainedMerry Go RoundPastel Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.” PeopleKnowsKindHas BeensI CanHappensLeftFeltTakenWindSlaveryAngryBackgroundsOppressionKnow MeCould Have Been Author:Fannie Lou Hamer