Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

[ED-209 has malfunctioned during a demonstration, killing Kinney in the boardroom] The Old Man: Dick, I'm very disappointed. Dick Jones: I'm sure it's only a glitch, a temporary setback. The Old Man: [raises his voice in anger] You call this a GLITCH...

RoboCop

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. It had taken...

The God of Small Things

[as Chris, Vin and Chico are about to leave the village] Old Man: You could a-stay, you know. They wouldn't be sorry to have you a-stay. Vin: They won't be sorry to see us go, either. Old Man: Yes. The fighting is over. Your work is done. For them, e...

The Magnificent Seven

Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.

African

You should make a new bucket whilst you still have the old one.

Berber

Don't throw away your old shoes until you have a new pair.

German

Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.

Jamaican

He who carries the word "no" with him will never be poor even when he is old.

Myanmar

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Eat, Pray, Love

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Geek Love

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes

A Gardener's Log

Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

The Blind Assassin

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Between Planets

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Beatrice and Virgil

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

Nick Clegg

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Bruce Catton

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

Bill Medley

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Bernard Werber