Auld's Quotes

#1. Established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking,

Tom Brokaw

#2. Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

Deepak Chopra

#3. The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees ...

Charles Stuart Calverley

#4. I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Julianna Baggott

#5. *For a fuller account of the revelations of the Moscow archives, and their detailed vindication of Orwell, see my Introduction to Orwell in Spain (Penguin, 2001).

Christopher Hitchens

#6. There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.

Jacqueline Winspear

#7. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes

James Hogg

#8. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

Robert Burns

#9. New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Jay Leno

#10. Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

Robert Burns

#11. Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

Edna Ferber

#12. We danced about a mile apart the whole time, until during "Auld Lang Syne" he suddenly rested his chin on the top of my head as if he were very tired.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Robert Burns

#14. The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

Donald Hall

#15. You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

David Attenborough

#16. Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple - these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. Call Audi. I may need the A3 sooner than I thought." "It's ready, Mr. Grey." "Oh. Good.

E.L. James

#18. I've yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It's men think there must be ill-wishes and magic in women,

Diana Gabaldon

#19. To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.

Stephen Cox

#20. Honey increases sperm count."
"Oh, you're so full of it. There's no scientific evidence to support that ridiculous statement."
"It's an auld Scottish belief.

Vonnie Davis

#21. It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Irvine Welsh