Quotes of: Old-thing Keyword

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

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

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

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

Adam DeVine

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

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

David Rubenstein

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

Emmylou Harris

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

John Ralston Saul