Sarah Louise Delany Quotes

#1. In our dreams we are always young.

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#2. Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

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#3. Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

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#4. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

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#5. Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

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#6. [On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

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#7. Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

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#8. When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

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#9. Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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#10. I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

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