Quotes of: Old-world Keyword

The gold of the new world has ruined the old one.

German

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

It was a brave old world.

The Fridgularity

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

Lucinda Williams

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

Dalton McGuinty

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

All the Worlds of Men

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

Maurice Sendak

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Ayad Akhtar

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Gioconda Belli

He who wants a new world must first buy the old.

Dutch

Fran: [to a staring crowd] What are you looking at? Dirty old men need love too!

The World's Fastest Indian

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Jeremy Irvine

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

Shannon L. Alder

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

Jacqueline Novogratz

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Vol. 2

Mortimer Brewster: [to Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha] Come here. I've got the two nicest Aunts in the world. Of course, you've got the nicest nephew in the world, too.

Arsenic and Old Lace

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

All the King's Men

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

John Raleigh Mott

And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole wor...

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954