Old Quotes

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I'm an old cynic.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.