Old Quotes

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

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?