Top 1200 Old Traditions Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

Across Central Virginia, the traditions of Thanksgiving bring us closer together with those we love. We gather with family and close friends, we share memories and laughter, and we give thanks for the profound blessing of living in the United States.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.