Old Quotes

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.