Top 1200 Old Wounds Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

It's such an old-fashioned attitude to make people feel like they're not good enough for your clothes. That's so negative and so old-fashioned and wrong.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

The weird thing about old Playboys is knowing that the naked woman is now an old lady. I said weird. I didn't say bad.

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint?old man propaganda.