Old Quotes

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.