Allison Burris > Allison's Quotes

“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
― John Wilmot

“Wisdom comes with winters”
― Oscar Wilde

“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
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― Doris Day

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
― Bell Hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry