Old Quotes

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.