Quotes of: Old-world Keyword

Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without which the garrison would not have carried on so gallantly; the idea of a Millennium when women were to reign supre...

Out of Africa

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The Vicar of Wakefield

Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.

A Year Without Autumn

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is...

Martin Jacques

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. T...

Susan Estrich

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

Olivier Martinez

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

Laura Dekker

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

Jose Andres Puerta

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

Debra Messing

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

John Updike

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

James Fallows

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.

Julian Fellowes

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Camino Real

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisor...

Brendan I. Koerner

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

Dan Brown

Warren: Jeez, last seen springs on motorcycle had to be in the 1920s. Burt Munro: Well, she's 42 years old. Warren: These brakes, they're completely inadequate. Burt Munro: I'm planning on going, not stopping.

The World's Fastest Indian

Maybe life isn't for everyone, Sometimes you do things to start anew life. But the new paths will always bring you back to the old ones or just show a glimpse of it so that you again go through those thousand memories. and no matter how much you try ...

Alamvusha

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a m...

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving...

The House of Doctor Dee