Old Quotes

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.