Old Man Quotes

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

My old man is a man of few words.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Old men ought to be explorers.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.