Quotes with years-old

Quotes 401 till 420 of 1807.

  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Juvenal From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Bailey Chase George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Keith Richards Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Keith Richards
    British musician, guitarist and songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    Source: The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Source: Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bill Buford Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • P. D. James Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Robert Browning Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Robert Browning Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Robert Browning Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Anthony Powell Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • André Maurois Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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