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Quotes About Old

From reveries so airy, from the toilOf dropping buckets into empty wells,And growing old in drawing nothing up.
~ William Cowper
And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
~ William Ernest Henley
He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too heavy to bear and it was settling itself onto his chest. He felt old, old. Civilizations had risen and fallen in the brief time that he had lived. He felt that when the old man's head exploded across the snow he should have turned the gun on himself.
~ William Gay
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.
~ William Hazlitt
Revelation, which is often associated with the end of things, also speaks of new beginnings—a new name (2:17); a new Jerusalem (3:12); a new heaven and a new earth (21:1); and all things new (21:5). It reads like a description of New Year's Eve. Ring out the old; ring in the new!
~ William J. Petersen
Christianity is supposed to be for old women and children, they would think. So what's this man with two earned doctorates from European universities doing here defending the truth of the Christian faith with arguments we can't answer?
~ William Lane Craig
The old man opened the door with all the ease of the Venus de Milo cracking a safe.
~ William McIlvanney
The winds of earth are old and sane But tell me, tell me when you know — What happens to a hurricane That hasn't any place to go?
~ David Hertz
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
~ David Hockney
Romero himself couldn't believe the way people were harping on Doom, a game that was six years old. It just showed how clueless the politicians had become. It was just the same old crap from the same old people. And Romero was tired of the blame. Those kids were defective, he thought, so don't blame it on my game. Don't blame the games. Blame the fucking parents.
~ David Kushner
The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament.
~ David Limbaugh
When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old
~ Loreena McKennitt
The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.
~ Dan Kimball
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
~ David Brainerd
The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.
~ Agnes Varda
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
~ Austin O'Malley
Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.
~ Mary C. Neal
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
~ May Sarton
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You can't bluff an old theologian. Linus
~ Charlie brown Christmas