Old Quotes

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

A man is as old as his arteries.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.