Top 100 Old Enough To Quotes
#1. I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.
Roger Glover
#2. It was Yuki. What was I up to? My response: Chewing on a stalk of celery and having a beer. Hers: Yuck. Mine: It's not so bad. She wasn't old enough to know things could be a lot worse.
Haruki Murakami
#3. When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole
#4. I just didn't feel old enough to have children...I had my hands full with a vampire, thank you very much.
L.J. Hayward
#5. When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
Paul Weller
#6. Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.
Langston Hughes
#7. I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
Michael Caine
#8. I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Mike Leigh
#9. I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
William McKinley
#10. You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
David Cameron
#11. I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that.
Blake Shelton
#12. As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
Melissa Auf Der Maur
#13. When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#14. the path your life is stuck on and be free
It's a dark whisper calling to me.
But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have.
Inio Asano
#15. Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
Anthony Marra
#16. All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
Evan Goldberg
#17. I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card.
Val McDermid
#18. In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
Michael Caine
#19. I'm old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground.
Chris Geiger
#20. It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Moon Unit Zappa
#21. The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.
William Gaddis
#22. Rome Archer, if you don't wake up right this second so I can tell you that I love you, I swear I'm going to name this baby something ridiculous like Daffodil or Rover and I'm going to let your brother be in charge of haircuts until he or she is old enough to complain.
Jay Crownover
#23. You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time
Jon Meacham
#25. Deep down in their psyches, both brothers were really just waiting to get old enough to sit on a porch and bang things with a shovel (Armed & Dangerous)
Abigail Roux
#26. The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
Erica Bauermeister
#27. And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.
Naomi Novik
#28. I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.
Mary Butts
#29. Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
#30. I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.
Mavis Staples
#31. To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.
Amy Klobuchar
#32. So what's your favorite Synism? (Kiara)
Duwad. (Nykyrian)
Which means? (Kiara)
You're not old enough for me to answer that. Hell, I'm not even old enough to say it. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there.
Louisa May Alcott
#34. Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.
Charles Barkley
#35. She was only eighteen."
"Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better,
Rachel Caine
#36. I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.
Al Gore
#37. Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
Tibor Fischer
#38. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#39. If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?
Marilyn Manson
#40. Unfortunately, the feelings arrive before you're old enough to handle them.
Doreen Owens Malek
#41. I wasn't old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.
Kelly Oxford
#42. Six is old enough to know how to pick a lock, but not old enough to know that you don't want to be picking that lock.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#43. Old enough to kill means old enough to die
Janet Morris
#44. I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
Halston Sage
#45. Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
Howard Jacobson
#46. When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
Emma Forrest
#47. Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
#48. There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#49. She was old enough to be stately, yet young enough to be known for her remarkable beauty. In short, she was the type of woman Sarene would normally hate - if she weren't also the kindest, most intelligent woman in the court. After
Brandon Sanderson
#50. Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
Scott Howell
#51. So how old are you, baby?" Gorilla asks her.
"Old enough to know better," she says, looking at his arms.
"You like what you see?" he asks and touches her leg. "You and me should do it, later."
"Did you forget to evolve?" she asks, struggling to get off the couch.
Cath Crowley
#52. At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?
Robin Hobb
#53. I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#54. 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
Ira Sachs
#55. If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of.
If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yourself a mother?
Jodi Picoult
#56. Everyone saying something does not make it true. You are old enough to know this.
Peter Clines
#57. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to
Oscar Wilde
#58. Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.
Richard Dawkins
#59. What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
Koren Zailckas
#60. Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.
Frankie J. Grande
#61. Everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.
Judith Martin
#62. When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.
Tom Stoppard
#63. Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones - old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.
Jojo Moyes
#64. I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
Bill Simmons
#65. There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.
Faith Sullivan
#66. respects a weak man. Asher had been old enough to be shamed by his father's scandal. When his classmates had
Ruth Cardello
#67. My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.
Christopher Rice
#68. If this was a flirtation - and it felt like a flirtation - it was like no other flirtation in Katya's experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.
Joanna Walsh
#70. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
Thomas Sowell
#72. About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.
Don Herold
#73. Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.
Dana Gould
#74. I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.
Georges Guetary
#75. Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
Paullina Simons
#77. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.
Armistead Maupin
#78. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus Hare
#79. Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?
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Melanie Benjamin
#80. When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.
Megan Fox
#82. Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.
Robert David Hall
#83. - What is a Socialist?
- That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.
Hilari Bell
#85. We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
Pearl Cleage
#86. You're not old enough to have a real boyfriend," he muttered.
I stiffened.
"If I'm old enough to have babies, then I'm damn well old enough to have a boyfriend," I ground out. "And just as soon as I decide on who it's going to be, I'll let you know.
Katherine Allred
#87. And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.
Nicholas Evans
#88. On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn't an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked.
Charlie Jane Anders
#89. Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Iain Duncan Smith
#90. All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!
Erin Hunter
#91. We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.
Chuck Klosterman
#92. Old enough to know better, young enough to do it twice and see if it gets my rocks off,
Amelia Hutchins
#93. The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down ...
Mitch Albom
#94. No one wanted to be responsible for telling the young and innocent Princess about the things a man and a woman could do together. No one wanted to take away my innocence. Well I was now 112 years old, I figured I was old enough to learn.
Laura Greenwood
#95. MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
Oscar Wilde
#96. I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
Eli Broad
#98. The sad truth is,
we are all grown ups and most of us are
matured.
However, not all of us are old enough to
accept that loving someone doesn't
guarantee you that they will love you in
return.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#99. 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.
Kinky Friedman
#100. I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.
Mimi Kennedy
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