Old Quotes

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.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.