Top 1200 Old Year Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

It's true: I can't think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

I tell you what: I bet Jerry Jones would not trade places with a 75-year black man in Chicago. I bet Joel Klatt would not trade places with a 30-year old black guy from Chicago or Watts. I bet he wouldn't do that. You know why? It's great to know that I'm white and a male in America.

You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don't think having an 18-year-old, somebody who's probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me.

As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

Whenever you meet another woman, you immediately revert to you five-year-old self thinking, 'do you want to be my friend. Can I keep you?'

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.

When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

In 2014, I composed the music for 'Jai Ho' which premiered in Dubai and I was a 23-year-old kid back then.

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."

If I could give my 14-year-old self any advice it would be to look after your hair. Don't mess with it!

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Being out there, as a 22-year-old, it opens your eyes up to the highest level of the sport. It can only do good things.

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

I was just too young to retire as a 52-year-old. I didn't want to be going out of football after loving it so much.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.

At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.

As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.

I come home from work and I have a six-year-old I have to cook for, so to be completely honest with you I mostly listen to, well, Justin Bieber.

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.

The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

Fat women are the last minority. I think it's the shape of our culture. What is to be admired is girls with the bodies of 14-year-old boys.

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.