Retired

Famous quotes containing the word retired:

    “If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I’m not exactly a general, but I am retired.”
    —Sydney Biddle Barrows (b. 1952)

    “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)

    “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)