Quotes About Old

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.

There's an old song that says, "Suicide is painless." I'm not foolish enough to believe that's always the case, but I do know this: Suicide ends pain.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.

One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

We've got to rediscover the Manchester United way of playing, and I don't think many teams enjoy their nights at Old Trafford when we're on song.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. 'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said. 'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie. 'You do not know what for.' 'You do, ma'am. That is enough.

Our moon, he answered, is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them.

God grant our new may inwrap our old!

There is more of the marvellous in an old library than ever any magic could work!

Her dark eyes looked as if they found repose there, so quietly did they rest on the face of the old man

Love is as lovely in the old as in the young–lovelier when in them, as often, more sympathetic and unselfish, that is true.

Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. Now, Curdie, are you ready? she said. Yes, ma'am, answered Curdie. You do not know what for. You do, ma'am. That is enough.

It smelled of man sweat and spaghetti sauce and old books. Like a library where sweaty men went to cook spaghetti.

As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.

strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter.

Archives are very old things—historical records like diaries and letters or even the old Stampede posters you saw at the museum," said Aunt Judy.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.