Top 1200 Old World Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.

The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

When I left Cameroon, I was 15 years old... I had one dream - it was to conquer the world.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

I have a four-year-old son, and he is the most important thing in the world to me.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.

We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.

It's a huge deal to have the chance to be a four-division world champion at 26 years old.

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

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

I'm very lucky to go back to my old club, my old home, my old house. To start my new chapter in this second part of my life in the Premier League is going to be something happy. I have very good memories from those four years in Manchester.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

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