London Breed Quotes

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

I don't think you can ever return, really.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.