Old Quotes

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be exciting and wonderful.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Growing old is not growing up.

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.