Old Quotes

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.