Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Florida Scott-Maxwell Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (14 September 1883 - 6 March 1979) was a playwright, author and psychologist.
More quotations from Florida Scott-Maxwell A mother . . . is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mother . . . is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “age” Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. —Ernest Hemingway More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? —Ellen Glasgow More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege. —Earl Warren More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. —Ernest Hemingway More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? —Ellen Glasgow More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege. —Earl Warren More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email