Top 100 Old Ones Quotes
#1. You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni
#2. Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.
Anne Cameron
#3. People ... shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.
Khaled Hosseini
#4. It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.
Ronald Reagan
#5. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
Aaron Sorkin
#6. Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
Dorothy Hamill
#7. When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
John Goodman
#8. We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.
Marty Rubin
#9. Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
#10. Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains.
Charles Stross
#12. As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa
#13. The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.
Glenn Frey
#14. Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Wallace Stegner
#15. The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.
Robert Farrar Capon
#17. In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones.
Fujiwara No Teika
#18. Before it began to open new wounds, the war healed quite a few old ones: it shook us out of our lethargy, our life took on new meaning, we no longer lived without a purpose, eating and sleeping and excreting like animals.
Costas Taktsis
#19. I remember it was a damn funny thing for a stranger to say," Stephen said. "Old Ones, we Old Ones. With capital letters
you could *hear* them.
Susan Cooper
#20. The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.
Todd Rose
#21. New wars started even before the old ones were won.
John Green
#22. The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
#23. The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.
Ben Bova
#24. Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
Martha Beck
#25. Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Muhammad Ali
#27. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.
Elif Shafak
#29. Raven could destroy me. He could twist any one of the missteps I had made around him until he owned me. That he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't ever. It just meant I was of more use to him running on my own steam, making fresh mistakes to compound the old ones than under his auspices.
Hailey Edwards
#30. Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.
Thomas Friedman
#31. We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ...
Denise Levertov
#32. I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
Mary Oliver
#34. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
Immanuel Kant
#35. I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.
Debbie Reynolds
#36. Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.
Ryan Lilly
#37. My show is constantly evolving ... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped ... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
David Copperfield
#38. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
#39. Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.
Sherry Thomas
#40. An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
Tom Peters
#41. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.
Diane Samuels
#42. I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.
David Duchovny
#43. Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channels than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.
Seth Godin
#46. Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
William Whewell
#47. Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
Helen Keller
#48. New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
Astra Taylor
#49. Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
Arthur Golden
#50. Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#51. Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.
Ryan Reynolds
#52. If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.
David "Doc" Searls
#54. It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
#55. No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.
Lee Iacocca
#56. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
#57. I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn't matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.
Miranda Kerr
#59. It seems to me that sometimes-or perhaps I might venture most of the time-occurrences have no cause at all. New stars appear and old ones vanish. Short hats become popular again. Things are as they are and do as they please for absolutely no reason at all.
Galen Beckett
#60. In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.
Jane Grigson
#61. If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
Jane Espenson
#62. You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup.
Doug Benson
#63. New technologies compete with old ones - for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.
Neil Postman
#64. The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
John Shelton Reed
#65. New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?
Suzanne Hayes
#66. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
Sharon Begley
#67. I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.
William Zinsser
#68. People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles F. Kettering
#69. And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn's stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told them about it years later, not at all pleased with them.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#70. There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.
Billy Graham
#71. Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Joseph Joubert
#72. Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
Mitch Albom
#73. The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.
Michael Lewis
#74. Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with something with our lives.
Anthony Castillo
#75. The devil doesn't need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.
Billy Graham
#76. To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
Will Thomas
#77. Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
Francesca Lia Block
#78. Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they 'nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
Tim Wu
#79. The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
G. Willow Wilson
#80. Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#81. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
#82. Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock
#84. Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#85. Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
Confucius
#86. New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
Mark Kurlansky
#87. New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
#88. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#89. New words are always being born and old ones fading away.
Patience Strong
#90. Symbols are important. The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many. Neither understand that the one is part of the many, the many part of the one.
Nora Roberts
#91. Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#92. You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. There aren't any new starts," Bobbie said. "All the new ones pack the old ones along with them. If we ever really started fresh, it'd mean not having a history anymore. I don't know how to do that.
James S.A. Corey
#94. People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person they hoped to marry, much less live the life they hoped to live, other people invented new dreams to replace the old ones, finding fresh reasons for discontent.
Katie Kitamura
#95. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
Karl Marx
#96. Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan Perlis
#97. The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
Miles Davis
#98. Creativity is essentially a "calling" and our callings are guides to new directions or expansions of old ones.
Anonymous
#99. Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it.
Stephen King
#100. The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
