A Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Born Crossed Fingers Fingers Crossed Old Young

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Edna St. Vincent Millay
American - Author
February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

My grandfather was born in Mexico. And when he was a young man, he crossed the Rio Grande. After that, he served in our military and became a U.S. citizen. He ended up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and that's where my father was born. That was the beginning of my Mexican-American family, where they settled in Las Vegas in the early 1940s.

Catherine Cortez-Masto

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.

Eric Partridge

There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

Taliesin

Fingers crossed, you'll hear a lot more of me.

Kyla Reid

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good roles to come my way.

Payal Rohatgi

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

Mitski

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

Molly Ivins

Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.

James Corden

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Douglas MacArthur

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

David Bailey

I do think it's getting better, but I have noticed that Asians are not well represented in awards shows, and not a ton of Asian faces on the big screen either. Perhaps some of the young Asian actors who are on TV series now will be seen in upcoming movies in the near future - Jamie Chung, Constance Wu, Suzy Nakamura, to name a few. Fingers crossed.