Old Quotes

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

I'm very old fashioned.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.