Old Quotes

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.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

The best mirror is an old friend.