Top 1200 Old Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

A guy says, I'm so old that I forgot how old I am. An old woman says, I'll tell you how old you are. Take off your clothes and bend over. The man does this. The woman says, You're seventy four. The man says, How can you tell? The woman says, You told me yesterday.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Have you ever walked into a store and wanted to leave your old life behind and become the person you would be if your life was full of the things in that store? I hadn't until I walked into At Land in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

I don’t have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi)

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

I didn't know any life apart from tennis since I was eight years old.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

It's really the old question: Does art inspire life or does life inspire art? Maybe it's a combination of both. But Trump represented something. He didn't create what we are. He comes from what we are. And he's a representative of what we are, whether we like it or not. He's just not our better nature.

I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

A 70-year-old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a 40-year-old. Conversely, a hard-living 30-year-old who has been inattentive to his health and well-being may have the biology of a man many years older.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club. You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the club.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

What was I like in 1966? I was 19 years old, very confident, and life was a big adventure.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.