Old Is Quotes

#1. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh

#2. It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

Ice Cube

#3. Old pain is an anchor.

Tammy Kling

#4. Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

Jennifer Egan

#5. A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

Matt Corby

#6. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

Ian Lamont

#8. A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight - any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#10. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#11. I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

Catherine Malandrino

#12. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

#13. Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Gilbert Highet

#14. It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me?

F.X. Toole

#16. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.

P.H. Ditchfield

#17. The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet is the smell of summer for me," I say to Catherine.
"Yes, Mom." she says, "I know, Your memories are my memories now.

Abigail Thomas

#18. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

Allison Pearson

#19. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song

Jon Bon Jovi

#20. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Joan Didion

#21. That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village.

Rick Bragg

#22. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.

David McCullough

#23. For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Sarah Palin

#25. Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.

John Berger

#26. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Marianne Williamson

#27. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.

P. W. Singer

#28. I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!

David Spade

#29. My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

Robert Glasper

#30. So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its true cause. Nothing is more acceptable than that which we are born into.

Hisham Matar

#31. Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#32. My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

Charles Bukowski

#33. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.

Jennifer Bosworth

#34. A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Lew Wallace

#35. What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

JD Era

#36. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

Adolf Hitler

#37. Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

James Rowland Angell

#38. My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#39. But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay.

Sara Gruen

#40. Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.

Mike Berry

#41. But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Juvenal

#42. My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

Nathan Fillion

#43. A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life?

Jeff Goins

#44. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)

Dan Carruthers

#45. After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Sigmund Freud

#46. There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

Rick Atkinson

#47. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos

#48. John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

Jimmy Fallon

#49. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

John Green

#50. The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

Laird Hamilton

#51. The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Jeff Miller

#52. History is not just a tale of men's making, but is a thing tied to the land. We call a hill by the name of a hero who died there, or name a river after a princess who fled beside its banks, and when the old names vanish, the stories go with them and the new names carry no reminder of the past.

Bernard Cornwell

#53. Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

Donald Hall

#54. I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

Agnes Repplier

#55. The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

Alexander Lowen

#56. I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm 'n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

Sheryl Crow

#57. When the forms of an old culture are dying,
the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

Rudolf Bahro

#58. you're entire life is going to change. you should try to accept that, because there's no possible way to avoid it. like it or not, fight it or don't, your old life is over. it was over long before you woke up here."
~caleb

C.J. Roberts

#59. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Marilynne Robinson

#60. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

#61. The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

George Carlin

#62. Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Arlo Guthrie

#63. From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Melissa George

#64. Twelve is the border between childhood and old.

Lindsay Eagar

#65. I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

Alison Jackson

#66. Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...

Julian Fellowes

#67. Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

Svetlana Boginskaya

#68. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69. I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

Tim Heidecker

#70. The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Cesare Pavese

#71. There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things

Wallace Stevens

#72. And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

Will Rogers

#73. She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.

Norman Vincent Peale

#74. But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.

Henry James

#75. Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they. Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.

Thomas More

#76. Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Billy Graham

#77. When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#78. This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't discover that spark until he's an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.

Adam Silvera

#79. It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning.

Liane Moriarty

#80. Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

Iris Apfel

#81. Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

Joyce Meyer

#82. Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Robin Boyd

#83. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

May Sarton

#84. Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

Lily Cole

#85. The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Paolo Sorrentino

#86. The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.

Sunday Adelaja

#87. The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

Jack Reynor

#88. There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can't teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. All they ever do, really, is look for food and water. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me, but that I was learning from them.

Paulo Coelho

#89. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#90. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Bobby Fischer

#91. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

#92. I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.

Julie Orringer

#93. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI

Tim Farrington

#94. History is just new people making old mistakes.

Sigmund Freud

#95. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#96. Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Phyllis Diller

#97. Superman is such an old character. He's an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he's been around for these decades is that he's gone through these different phases.

Gene Luen Yang

#98. The only thing that is limiting the blessings of God is our old way of thinking and a

Sunday Adelaja

#99. The handwriting in the letter is the neatest I've ever seen. It looks like an old-fashioned love letter or something, every loop perfectly formed. I guess you have a lot of time to practice penmanship in prison.

Roan Parrish

#100. Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Byron Katie