Old Quotes

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We’ve all been there.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

When you're doing improv for seven years, you're an old soul of the improv world.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I love hats, I'm such a fan of hats. You don't wear a fascinator everywhere you go, but there are ways to incorporate old Hollywood nuances into your looks today but also edge it up.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.