Sami and I had exactly one day together in the old world. On Tuesday the jihadists came to our front door and knocked down our buildings. Our new world was hijacked planes, anthrax, and Afghanistan. Then we had snipers inside the Beltway. Then came I...
This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that...
An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustai...
I remember the good old days. You must remember the good old days, because they were the days with the long white beards.
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as childre...
If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving...
Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.
Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
