Top 100 In My Day Sayings
#1. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield
#2. I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
Pete Doherty
#3. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken.
Helen Simonson
#4. I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan.
Karen Ehman
#5. In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. Pritzker
#6. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. "In my day, we used animal blood," the ghost mumbled. "It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference." "I will treat them with respect," Nico said. "At least let me keep the toy," the ghost said.
Rick Riordan
#7. In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
Cleveland Amory
#8. I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
Tommy Chong
#9. In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business.
Katherine Hall Page
#10. It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.
Charles Barkley
#11. WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.
Dixie Dean
#12. In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.
Heather McDonald
#13. These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
Robert Mitchum
#14. Even in my day there were five plaques at the top of the tomb, engraved with a written record of what each of these three groups had done, which prove, when the figures are added up, that the prostitutes made the greatest contribution.
Anonymous
#15. Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks.
"Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.
Simone Elkeles
#16. I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
W.C. Fields
#17. In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
Michael Caine
#18. I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.
David Hemmings
#19. I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.
Rose Leslie
#20. Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
Gertrude B. Elion
#21. In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
John Le Carre
#23. Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see.
Toby Keith
#24. I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.
Jacques Villeneuve
#25. [Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love
[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.
Janet Evanovich
#26. Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.
Robert Plant
#27. It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.
Jenna Fischer
#28. Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
Rick Astley
#29. Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we had clowns, we had them all. But we had one thing that was real, and that was me
Shawn Michaels
#30. In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.
Byron Nelson
#31. In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
Gordon Smith
#33. I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing ... I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
Benjamin Spock
#34. While I'm no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.
Jarod Kintz
#35. In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.
Lizzie Brochere
#36. Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis
#38. In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.
Ryne Sandberg
#39. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#40. These resemble no chicken fingers I've ever seen, lass. And I saw a fair amount of chickens in my day. There was this wench in the stables with the most remarkable . . . well, never mind that. You must grow fowl considerably larger now. I shudder to ponder the size of their beaks.
Karen Marie Moning
#41. In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
Lil' Mama
#42. This would never have happened in my day," Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the elders' den. "What's next? Kit warriors?
Erin Hunter
#43. I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.
Vanya Asher
#44. I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.
Tommy Bolt
#46. Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.
Joss Whedon
#47. In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
Peter Ustinov
#48. Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.
Maya Rudolph
#49. In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#50. Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
Stan Musial
#51. There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.
Alexis Taylor
#52. As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.
Franny Armstrong
#53. In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
Peter O'Toole
#54. I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
Graham Taylor
#55. Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.
Holly Black
#56. I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself.
Fernando Torres
#57. I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.
V.S. Naipaul
#58. Shanna - Madam Beauchamp. You have provided the brightest moment in my day." As she stared, his lips moved further in soundless vow. "I love you.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#59. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
Dennis Bergkamp
#60. Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
Arnold Palmer
#61. In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
Barry White
#62. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
Betty White
#63. I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
Ja Rule
#64. I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.
Dave Goldberg
#65. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.
Vin Diesel
#66. In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.
Nina Dobrev
#67. In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Victoria Wood
#68. In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.
Bill Bryson
#69. Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#70. M: Is he smart
I: She yes very smart sees right through me
M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Anne Carson
#71. You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.
Joanna Lumley
#72. The vampire's true appearance was grotesque
but it wasn't as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them
Jim Butcher
#73. I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
Kelly Bishop
#74. College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both
while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.
Judith Martin
#75. Ah well, there you go. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken. Major Pettigrew
Helen Simonson
#76. Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
Rick Riordan
#77. Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
Jack Johnson
#78. In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer? - Sorilea
Robert Jordan
#79. I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
John Lennon
#80. In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.
Ashlyn Macnamara
#81. I hear beyond the range of sound,
I see beyond the range of sight,
New earths and skies and seas around,
And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.
Mark Spitz
#83. In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.
Claire Bloom
#84. It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott
#85. Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.
Ray Charles
#86. I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.
David Deutsch
#88. In my day the library was a wonderful place ... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs ... it was a sanctuary ... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.
Norman Mailer
#89. Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
Ed Westwick
#90. Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
#91. Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
Rand Beers
#92. In my day, everything came from my belly button and seat of the pants. Today, everything is done from research.
George Wilson
#93. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
Arthur Golden
#94. I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.
Dee Snider
#95. You're a vision." I narrowed my eyes at him. "Like the kind you see after a healthy dose of peyote?" "No, you know, it sort of looks like something some of the more promiscuous girls might have worn in my day," Gabriel said. "On what planet is that a compliment?" I demanded as Dick laughed.
Molly Harper
#96. It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
Hosea Ballou
#97. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Jane Haddam
#98. In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.
Louis Auchincloss
#99. Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.
Brittany Howard
#100. I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear.
Jessica Raine
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