Old Quotes

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.