Old Gaffer Quotes

#1. To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth ...

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. Lord, we need a generation of believers who are not ashamed of the gospel. We need an army of believers who hate to be lukewarm and will stand on Your Word above all else. Raise 'em up, Lord. Raise them up.

Chris Fabry

#3. First we die, the woman says. "Then our bodies are buried. So we die two deaths." "Then in another world, folded inside the living world, we wait. We wait until everyone who knew us when we were children has died. And then the last of them dies, we finally die our third death.

Anthony Doerr

#4. I wish they'd hurry up with the second scene,' said Mrs. Viveash. 'If there's anything that bores me, it's entr'actes.'
'Most of one's life is an entr'acte,' said Gumbril.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of,

David Baldacci

#6. Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

D. A. Carson

#7. People you associate with or choose to deal with are the most important people who will shape your destiny.

Abhishek Ratna

#8. To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

Steve Hovley

#9. who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi,

Robert Harris

#10. Alchemy is taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained.

Kenneth Coombs

#11. If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.

Murray Rothbard

#12. You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Sarah Louise Delany

#14. I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Martin Mull

#15. I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

Norman Reedus