Old Quotes

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

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.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.