Diana Ross Quotes

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

You read the past in some old faces.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

The past is never where you think you left it.