Quotes About Old Things

#1. We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identical
structures.

Don DeLillo

#2. To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Lisa Wingate

#3. It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

T.H. White

#4. Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the "old kick" out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

Kami Garcia

#7. Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Grammy would speak of lost things, old things, things we should remember when it is hard to love, when one should play.

Lisa O'Donnell

#9. Old things climb out through my mouth and set themselves free in the air. On the high moor there are patterns and in my small mind there are patterns. [...] All the centuries drop away, and I am in the presence of something that does not know time.

Paul Kingsnorth

#10. If you wish to find the past preserved, follow the million feet of the crowd. At the worst the uneducated only wear down old things by sheer walking. But the educated kick them down out of sheer culture.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

Cinda Williams Chima

#12. I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

Martha Wells

#13. Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Life is about learning new things and relearning old things.

LIZ

#15. When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

Dita Von Teese

#16. Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus

#17. Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Fran Lebowitz

#18. Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

R. K. Milholland

#19. My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

Renzo Novatore

#20. It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

Billy Corgan

#21. There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. He'd always preferred newness, associating old things with decay and dowdiness.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Henry Austin Dobson

#24. One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

Bill Bryson

#25. Old things tell a story, Mr. Gilchrist, just as the lives of people do,' Miss Iverness's dark eyes were fixed intently on him. 'They preserve the past and remind us of how far we have come.

Sarah E. Ladd

#26. Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#27. American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

Channing Tatum

#28. Everybody's always doing the same old things
you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

Michael Lee West

#29. The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. There are certain words that should never be spoken, names that should never be used. Old things. Undead things.

Michael Scott

#31. I'd rather give her new ones, for I think she is a little bit proud and might not like old things. If she was my sister it would do, because sisters don't mind, but she isn't, and that makes it bad, you see. I know how I can manage beautifully; I'll adopt her! and Rose looked quite radiant with

Louisa May Alcott

#32. Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

Robert I. Sutton

#33. What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ...

Ethel M. Dell

#34. It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

Thomas H. Cook

#35. Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

Emily Carr

#36. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Kim Gordon

#37. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Jenny Han

#38. 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

#39. Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Paulo Coelho

#40. When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

Jonathan Hickman

#41. I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel - travel is a carnival of wild affairs.

Carol Vorvain

#42. It happened like this in the world. Old things lost their grip and dropped away; not always because they were bad things, but sometimes because the new things were more bad, and stronger.

T.H. White

#43. Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

John Raleigh Mott

#44. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

Thomas Merton

#45. I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

Damian Woetzel

#46. Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,
means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,
one as much as another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

John Darnielle

#48. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. - 2Co 5:17 In

Chris White

#49. There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

Hilary Mantel

#50. Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

George Raveling

#51. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

Frank Watson Dyson

#52. He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. "These fashions have come round again," he said, "old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood,

Victor Hugo

#53. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

Yasunari Kawabata

#55. Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.

Gemma Malley

#56. When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know. When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason.

Meghan O'Rourke

#57. How I have walked ... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Thomas Cole

#58. The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

Henry R. Towne

#59. Old things are passed away;
Behold, all things are become new.

Bible Verses

#60. I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#61. Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Josh Lanyon

#62. Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.

Benjamin Noys

#63. Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
For love to continue and be gradually different.

John Ashbery

#64. Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.

Stephen King

#65. New things are always better than old things.

Andy Warhol

#66. Old things can become new things.

Karen Foxlee

#67. If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Russell Johnson

#68. All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Paul Klee

#69. Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

Ari Berk

#70. Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling

#71. She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

Gregory Maguire

#72. That's one thing I love about my son - he's just a gamer at heart, he loves everything. He'll still play 'Pole Position,' or just old things at an arcade. He just loves games. He's not a graphics snob at all. I love him.

Ron Funches

#73. If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Beth Moore

#74. Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo's David. Versailles. Magnus himself.

Cassandra Clare

#75. I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Steve Lacy

#76. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Marilynne Robinson

#77. Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#78. The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

Michel Hazanavicius

#79. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#80. 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

#81. I like everything old-fashioned," said Eleanor; "old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.

Anthony Trollope

#82. Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

Leigh Hunt

#86. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#87. 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

#88. She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.

Denys Johnson-Davies

#89. If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.

George Eliot

#93. One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

Jane Birkin

#94. In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want to ask why they don't pack up their things and emigrate.

Carie Maas

#95. I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#96. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.

Stephen King

#97. Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#98. Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

Peter Jurasik

#99. Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders - FULL SPEED AHEAD!

Chila Woychik

#100. I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

Kyle Dunnigan