top of page

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

Gloria Naylor, American Novelist

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

Exlpore more Old quotes

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

"Old foxes want no tutors."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

"Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect."

James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor

Explore more quotes by Gloria Naylor

"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

"Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song."

"One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work."

"Life is accepting what is and working from that."

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

bottom of page