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Quotes 401 till 420 of 1369.

• I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• I hope I never get so old I get religious.

  Ingmar Bergman
  Swedish stage and film director (1918 - 2007)
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• I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).

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  Benjamin Jowett
  British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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• I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

  Gloria Steinem
  American feminist writer (1934 - )
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• I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
  

  Rose Kennedy
  American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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• I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

  Bruce Forsyth
  British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• I love to both give and receive very old books.

  Augusten Burroughs
  American writer (1965 - )
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• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

  Johnno (2015) 107

  David Malouf
  Australian writer (1934 - )
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• I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• I never feel age... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

  Louise Nevelson
   
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• I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

  Billie Holiday
  American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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• I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
  

  Richard Dawkins
  English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

  Anne Rice
  American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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• I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.

  Spin magazine, December 1999

  Beck
  American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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• I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

  Anthony Holden
  English writer, broadcaster and critic
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Subjects in these quotes:

• coming-of-age
• unbelievably
• miraculous
• interviews
• weariness
• laughable

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