Quotes About Old

She tries to search her heart, but the map is old and the compass is faulty.

The briefcase was old, worn and comfortable. It spoke of a real person with a real life, real feelings.

We shook our heads, like two old soldiers drinking at the veterans' hall and despairing of the youth today.

Uncertain firelight, a softer orange, made the shadows dance and sway, so that her face looked hollow and old.

This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.

I'm a goofy old fart, but I still have fun. Have you ever been on a rollercoaster? I'm so old I get that same sensation just rolling over in bed.

There's also a stony precipice nearby, but anyone who thinks it's a natural feature would be mistaken, for it's the remains of an old quarry, which used to take bites out of the Plateau and would surely have consumed the whole thing eventually in the avid mouths of its diggers. They say there are plans to start it up again, at which point we shall vanish from the face of the Earth, devoured by Machines.

And if he did hesitate for a moment, he would usually come to the conclusion that the truest argument was an old one: the Earth is round. Let us not be too attached, then, to directions. And this was understandable. To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return, since nothing exerts such a draw as emptiness.

It was all pretense with her when she returned his various little signs and signals. How pitiful to be so old one isn't even tempted to flirt any more! How amazing to be so crazy about your own child that being crazy about a man loses all interest and excitement in comparison.

He loves to tell that old story of the don who was granted an interview with Napoleon. "No doubt a remarkable fellow," said the don afterwards, "but anyone can see he's not a Cambridge man.

We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.

What the myth of Götterdämmerung signified of old, the irreligious form of it, the theory of Entropy, signifies to-day—world's end as completion of an inwardly necessary evolution.

The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.

The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.

Old is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time of life to take bigger risks on behalf of the common good.

My mother's voice whispered in my ears. Look now to your da. If you've never seen rage on his face, you have now. Those old fools won't know what hit them.

Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.

Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?

Patrick Maguire, the old peasant, can neither be damned nor glorified:The graveyard in which he will lie will be just a deep-drilled potato-fieldWhere the seed gets no chance to come throughTo the fun of the sun.The tongue in his mouth is the root of a yew.

She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!" The monster looked at him quizzically. "How strange", it said. "The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise. "You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked.

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.