Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

My grandmother had no time for old, no matter how her face crinkled or her days folded like an apron around her middle.

It Broke Anyway

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Infinite in All Directions

the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

The Invention of Morel

No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully. “That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.

The Interestings

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Joy for Beginners

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Jacob's Room

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

The King of Lies

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

Romeo and Juliet

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

Romeo and Juliet

That first kiss, it still has a way of making us nervous as teenagers, no matter how old we get.

A Ride of a Lifetime

…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.

A Red Herring Without Mustard

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

Remember Me?

Yeah, that’s exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.

Spirit Bound

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Split: A Counterculture Childhood

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?

Saving Grace

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

Stepping Heavenward

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Mister Monday