In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
