Years Older

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or older:

    But he answered his father, Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:29,30.

    It is poverty’s speech that seeks us out the most.
    It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
    This is the tragic accent of the scene.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)