Old Quotes

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.