Top 1200 Old Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

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'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

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

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

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.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

I'm sort of an old soul, and 'You Bet Your Life' with Groucho Marx is the best game show of all time, in my opinion.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

I started wrestling when I was 19 years old, and I spent my entire adult life on the road chasing this dream, and I loved it.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life. Today, it's a source of expression. I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

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

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

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.

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

I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

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.

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!

I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American childhood life.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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.

I've spent my entire life in Kolkata. My nine-year-old daughter, Hiya, studies here. My wife Mohua is a teacher.

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I've had.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

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 I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

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

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.