"How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!"

-- StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

#Age Quotes #Old Age Quotes

“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”
“Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning”
“I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.”

Source : "'I always fight directors'". Interview with Christopher Turner, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.
“I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten.”
“I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.”
“Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.”
“The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”
“God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.”

Source : Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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