Top 1200 Old Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

I wasn't a bra burner, I'm not a political person. I saw there was an old-boys' network, but my philosophy has always been to get over it, and move on.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

In Puerto Rico there is an old adage that goes something like this: 'The thief believes that, like himself, everyone else is also a thief.' I'd like to add that the corrupted person and all of the corrupted journalists all see corruption around them. In their corrupt minds, they have an inability to see any of the good in another person.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, "Oh well, she works."

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

This mum comes up, she's got a five-year-old kid and she says, 'Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the whole world.' I thought, 'How cool is that? I've got five-year-old fans,' and as I'm signing this autograph, the mum goes, 'Yeah, yeah, you're by far the best Wiggle.'

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him turn once or twice to an old man. This youngster, to whom He had granted a direct encounter with Himself, had nevertheless to go for instruction to someone who had offended God, and all because that person was an old man. He decided that Samuel was most worthy of a high calling and yet He made him submit to the guidance of an old man so that once summoned to a divine ministry he might learn humility and might himself become for all the young a model of deference.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, 'Oh well, she works.'

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".