Retired

Famous quotes containing the word retired:

    “I retired from work and I didn’t want to just sit there and do nothing; I don’t knit and I don’t like TV and I’m no gardener.”
    —Margaret Demers (b. c. 1917)

    “I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.”
    —Omar Bradley (1893–1981)

    “Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children’s hands, in front-yard plots,—now standing by wall-sides in retired pastures, and giving place to new-rising forests;Mthe last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)