Words matter. These are the best Old Things Quotes from famous people such as Emily Carr, Jonathan Stroud, Teyonah Parris, Jeff Bauman, Mary Pilon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there’s no rigour to it.
I’m looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially a dream board. It is a school binder that I had put magazine clippings on. It said, ‘TV actress, fame, a picture of Halle Berry, a picture of Christina Aguilera.’ I was obsessed with both of them.
Sometimes I don’t fully accept it. It’s tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.
I’ve often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don’t have many old things, and we don’t really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom’s family was one of the early families in California, so there’s history going back to the 1840s or ’50s.
I think this is how life is. It’s not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
If any man be in Christ, he’s a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.
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.
I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven’t seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven’t seen them before.
One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you’ve managed to save old things but to keep using them – that they’ve not just become museums the way they do in the United States.
I’ve been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what’s going on, hearing new things or new old things.
That’s one thing I love about my son – he’s just a gamer at heart, he loves everything. He’ll still play ‘Pole Position,’ or just old things at an arcade. He just loves games. He’s not a graphics snob at all. I love him.
