Missing Our Old Days Quotes

#1. Personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Donald M. MacKinnon

#2. Some people need to be in the presence of truth, I think, others beauty, and we were each discovering on which side the other one fell.

Ruth Curry

#3. Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn't read.

Toni Morrison

#4. President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'

Conan O'Brien

#5. These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I'd missed my buddies!

Rick Riordan

#7. Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Saul Bellow

#8. The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Mother Teresa

#9. Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?"

"Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences."

- Corran and Jacen

Troy Denning

#10. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

Anna Quindlen