“We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.”– George Saunders Related Quotes “Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”– Herman Melville “I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”– Queen Latifah “There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.”– Annie Dillard