“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.”

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

“They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.”

“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”