Top 1200 Old Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

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

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news.

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

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

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.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Let's put an end to this European civil war, the existence of which we don't want to admit, and stop constantly looking at whether we are better than our neighboring country at this or the other thing. We have to be open to new things, and that includes things that have been taboo until now: France still insists that the treaties cannot be changed. Germany doesn't want any financial transfers. We have to leave these old ways of thinking behind.

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

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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!

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.

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.

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

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.

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

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

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.

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.

When I decided to do 'Mary + Jane,' one of the things that I was most excited about was the demographic that we would predominantly be reaching out to, which is 12- to 25-year-old women.

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

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 old. I'm 37, but I can do things that fighters 10 years younger cannot. I will prove that, or I will die trying.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Anyone who's been in the WWE for an extended period of time has to be able to do different things. Eventually, a character gimmick is going to get old and stale. And, when it does, if that's all you can do, you're done.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

I've met fans that are 9 months old to 90 years old.

It's exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.

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

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't.

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.

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.

I've always been a bit old-fashioned and thought the best way to sort things out was man to man.

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

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.