Top 1200 Old Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

It's fascinating to go somewhere where you're away from everything. There are no houses, no buildings, no roads, no people. And for a little less extreme hunting, any place in the West - Colorado, Utah, Montana - that's just beautiful country.

No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at the tops of tall buildings try to compete, but spinning around is no substitute for speeding along.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.