Top 1200 Old Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.'

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

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.

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

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!

Success isn't about reaching your goals; it's about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It's that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.

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.

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

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

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

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.

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

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.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

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

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

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

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

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

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

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.

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.

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 new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

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.

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

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

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other person in my life, the memories we'd shared often felt like phantoms. Who was this person I once loved? Did she still really exist? The answer, on a metaphysical level, was that this person didn't still exist. She'd gone on to become a different person, an individual with new hopes and dreams which no longer involved me.

When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything.

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

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

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.

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

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.

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

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 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.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

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.

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

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

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.