Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 801 till 820 of 903.

  • Ben Barnes When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Burton Cummings When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Alexander Pope When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Blake When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Barbara Mikulski When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Caroline Lawrence When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Amartya Sen When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ruth Gordon When you finally learn how to act, you're too old for the good parts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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