Old Quotes

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!