It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.
The old question ‘Is it in the database?’ will be replaced by ‘Is it on the blockchain?’
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
I grew up in a time when women didn’t really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny – because it’s powerful; it’s a threat.
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Best and I worked in the sub-basement of the old medical building day and night. Time, meals, sleep – all were of secondary consideration. We had to get insulin into a form that was refined enough for continued clinical use.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, ‘You get what you give.’ The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don’t really hear that in too many places.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They’re like little seven-year old kids when they don’t get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
Just ask anybody who is getting old – everything starts hurting. For me, it’s my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face – and make sense of – their own existence.
The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf’s looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I’d wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
On ‘Old School,’ I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ I was more of an actor. I wasn’t Snoop Dogg, the rapper.
I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I’m really not that old.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, ‘Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.’
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I’m not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that’s good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
I just want to show the world it’s never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you’re old to get it.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
