Old Quotes

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

It was great to have a Republican character as likeable as Alan Alda was in the West Wing. He was one Republican I would probably vote for; he was old school.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Old age is but a second childhood.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.