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1 " I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? "
― Elizabeth Gilbert , Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
2 " This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, " There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. "
3 " I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess. "
― Mizuki Nomura , Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
4 " I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she'll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady with all the spirit knocked out of her and nobody believe in she'll remember a happy day in July when a horny young guy strutted his stuff and made her heart beat fast. "
― Eric Bishop-Potter , Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me
5 " In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant " Grandma Witch" . "
6 " I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up. "
― Flannery O'Connor
7 " Charity is the best form of prayer. Do whatever little you can to help the not so fortunate. You may donate a small portion of your income, you may take out time to teach the underprivileged children, sponsor a meal for the hungry or just spend some time with an old lady who has no one. I am sure that you will move one level high on the spiritual plane. Like prayers, doing charity once is not enough. You have to do it continuously, as much as possible. "
― Neelam Saxena Chandra
8 " Then she said, with piteous defiance, " If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life. "
9 " I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in front of Burgerville headquarters." You'll blow our cover." " But what if there is a fire?" " The fire department will come and put it out," I said." With what?" " Water," I said." Not from that hydrant," Monk said. " It's inoperable." " No, it's not," I said. " It can still be used." " There is urine all over it," Monk said. " no fireman would dare touch it, nor would any other human being." " Firefighters run into burning buildings," I said." They aren't going to care about some dog pee on a fire hydrant." " They would if they knew," Monk said. " We should call and warn them. Call Joe right now. He can get the word out faster than we can." " Every fire hydrant in the city has dog pee on it, Mr. Monk. It's how dogs mark their territory. I can guarantee you that every male dog that has passed that hydrant has pissed on it." He looked at me, wide eyed, " No." " It's what dogs do," I said. " The firefighters knows this." Monk swallowed hard. " And they still use the hydrants?" " Of course they do." " They are the bravest men on earth," Monk said solemnly. "
10 " This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, " There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?" Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering. "
11 " I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know. "
12 " I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. "
13 " The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity. "
14 " When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone. "
