Old Quotes

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

It's a funny old world.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

Old foxes want no tutors.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.