A Quote by May Sarton

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

May Sarton

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Anna Learn Nobody Old Special Stays

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May Sarton
American - Novelist
May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nancy Willard

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Bill Johnson

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

William Butler Yeats

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

Jackie Robinson

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan

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Dino De Laurentiis

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

Lupita Nyong'o

A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.

William Butler Yeats

Nobody stays young forever.