James Anthony Froude Quotes

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

James Anthony Froude

• Life
• God
• Children
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Real
  • Children

• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Speak
  • Start
  • Blessings

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Procrastination

• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bored

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• In married life three is company and two none.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Company
  • Married

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

  

  Jim Cooper

• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Workers
  • Employers
  • Social Security program

• Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • God
  • Children