Top 1200 Being Old Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon said that the old covenant was a convenant of prosperity, and the new convenient is a covenant of adversity, whereby we're being weaned from the present world and made meek for the world to come.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

Where is Germany now and where does it want to go? It's a question being asked by our partners and allies abroad. We have to return - urgently - to our old dependability. We have to make clear for others what we stand for, where we're headed, and that we know where we belong.

I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.

To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.

I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

The gospel is the power of God for salvation for all who believe, not just old, black grandmothers or not just old, white Republican guys.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

I think there's an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.