Top 1200 Old Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

I've decided I'm no longer pulling sweaters over my head. Maybe that's sort of an old man thing, but if it is, I'm there.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

One thing that's good is I don't lose it if some old mate goes 'bang!' and hits me in the face.

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.

Trying on jeans is my favorite thing. Maybe later I can get a pap smear from an old male doctor.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that's a great thing.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

The only thing that's new is the internet! But the problems and issues that all the kids go through now, it's nothing different! It's funny how your kid can come home and tell you something and you can tell them almost how it's going to play out. It's crazy, I be like 'Wow, am I that old?' But you've seen it before, and it's the same thing.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

I guess the negative thing that happens to me is that I'm old now. They said there was a generation I was too young for and now some will say there's probably 10 generations I'm too old for. They'll say, isn't he dead or retired or whatever? Or it just becomes fashionable to say "Oh he's not funny anymore," which, I don't know, maybe to them I'm not. I'm more likely to hear that now than I am to hear that I'm unacceptably risqué.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

Well, I'm old enough to remember Carol Burnett, and I would love a variety show type of thing.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.