Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.
I believe in that old adage that ‘as goes California, so goes the country.’
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate – A thousand years of Middle Life.
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I’ve been to Iran, and if you’re there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can’t say, ‘Oh, Iran, let’s bomb them.’
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end.
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
I’m an old man. A big weekend for me is Home Depot and a Caesar salad.
‘Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
These days, right now, these are the good old days. I’ve always approached it that way. That’s why I’m still working. I’m not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
It was a very scary place to be. I don’t think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and train stations of Calcutta.
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother’s Morris Minor. I drove it around my father’s farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
The good old days are now.
I’m the hardest working person I know. I’m 20 years old – is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
‘Snow White’ is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today’s science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It’s bizarre.
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.
If you’re only a fan of the old music, that music’s gonna wind up sounding even older.
‘The Impossible Dream’ is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
I was 12 years fittin’ to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I’ve been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so that’s just the life. We’ve been playing with money since young.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
The tennis ball doesn’t know how old I am. The ball doesn’t know if I’m a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
