Pastoral Resources

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.