Old Quotes

Mathematics is as old as Man.

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.