Quotes with old-world

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Al Jarreau These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Henry Vaughan They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Barbara Amiel They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They died to save their country and they only saved the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Vilanch They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Source: Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Allan K. Chalmers They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Anthony Holden They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Barry Sheene They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
    Barry Sheene
    British professional motorcycle racer (1950 - 2003)
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  • Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    Source: Notes on the Next War (1935)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Barbara Kruger Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • James A. Garfield Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Source: Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • William Blake Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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