Top 1200 Old World Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

When you're 38 years old and you've already been in three World Cups... one thing I've learned, especially when you play for your country, is, 'I'm there for my country.'

In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

In the deaf community, there is exactly that - a community. It's like nothing I see in the hearing world. It's old fashioned, I guess, and beautiful.

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

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

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

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

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.

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

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.

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

…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

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.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

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'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.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

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.

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 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.

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

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

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.

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

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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.

Bubba, in my old day I party on the road with all my friends. Now, I respect my family I respect the world and I don't do anything anymore.

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

The old men know when an old man dies.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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

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

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

Every old sock meets an old shoe

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

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

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.

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

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

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

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.

A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

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

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

I have come too late into a world too old.