Old Quotes

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Every old poem is sacred.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.