"If you wait, you grow old, nothing more."

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Source : Walter Bargen (2009). “Days Like this are Necessary: New and Selected Poems”, Bkmk Pr/Umkc

Walter Bargen

#Waiting Quotes #Grows Quotes

“And I'm, whether I want it or not, a front figure for the team, a guy that talks about how the team is doing and represents the team.”
“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.”
“The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground; Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead.”
“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”
“I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them I thought it was pretty good company to keep.”
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
“Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.
“As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My ***** weren't big enough.”

Source : "Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty" by William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 21, 2005.

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