Old Father Time Quotes

#1. I'm going to go with ZZ Top
they're my faves ... because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Robin Thicke

#2. My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

Chiang Kai-shek

#3. There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing his grizzled red beard by this time, unless you came straight from the old un without any father at all betwixt you; which I shouldn't wonder at, a bit.

Charles Dickens

#4. Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. Ronan rationed the music from their old life, as if he used up a bit of his memories of his father every time he played it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Robert Matsui

#7. One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'

Sean Maguire

#8. My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

Ziggy Marley

#9. From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#10. In late 1949, at two and a half years old, I arrived in Jamaica for the first time. I had crossed the Atlantic by air from England. My Jamaican father was studying in London, my European mother was sick, and so in true Jamaican style I was sent home to my grandparents.

Rachel Manley

#11. Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Amor Towles

#12. The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

Jake Busey

#13. Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on - " "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.

Karen Hawkins

#14. I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

Gabriel Campisi

#15. I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Sam Houston

#16. When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

Mark Twain

#17. I'm doubly sorry for your loss," the old monk began after a time. "First, because every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows another man.

Brian Staveley

#18. I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

Todd English

#19. My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Alvin Lee

#20. When Myron was ten years old, his father had taken him and his younger brother, Brad, to a game. Brad was five at the time. Dad had secured

Harlan Coben

#21. Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Major Taylor

#22. My father had slowed down playing a little ... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

David Edwards

#23. I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

Orlando Bloom

#24. I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

Will Smith

#25. More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.

David Blankenhorn

#26. I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

Mary Pickford

#27. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Anthony Liccione

#28. My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

Marianne Williamson

#29. The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Carlyle

#30. I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Wynton Marsalis

#31. It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a writer, even though I couldn't even read. It was mainly because I thought of my father as a writer.

Tom Wolfe