To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‘You’re better than the Cassius of old.’
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
You’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he’d co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
I’m a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.
No, we’ve been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
A young man who isn’t a socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn’t got a head.
I’m not trying to be new school and I’m not old school – I’m classic. There’s a lot of new cars and there’s a lot of old cars, but I’m just classic in doing what I do.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn’t lived long enough to experience. That’s why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell’s unknown and untranslated dissertation, ‘Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,’ buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago’s old Harper Library.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother’s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
