Growing Old Quotes

“Death is the price we pay for life.”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

“Many of the names on the gravestones are also the names of town roads, which reminded me of my long-ago childhood, when these roads were essentially long unpaved driveways named for the people whose farms were at the ends of them.”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

“The Night Is Freezing Fast,” by A. E. Housman,”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

“homeopathic”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

“colon”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace

“Fall, winter, fall; for he, Prompt hand and headpiece clever, Has woven a winter robe, And made of earth and sea His overcoat forever, And wears the turning globe.”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace