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Quotes About Old

Who said "Peacock Pie"?The old king to the sparrow:Who said "Crops are ripe"?Rust to the harrow.
~ Walter de La Mare
They took pictures of Henry as he sat in the old canvas chair before the stall. 'Cross your knees and look sly,' they told Henry.
~ Walter Farley
We're tenting tonight on the old campground,Give us a song to cheerOur weary hearts, a song of homeAnd friends we love so dear.
~ Walter Kittredge
Biblionekromantik ist keine Religion, eher das gegenteil. Sie haben lediglich ein morbides Verhältnis zu Büchern. Ihnen können die Schwarten gar nicht alt und zerbrechlich genug sein.
~ Walter Moers
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young
~ Wilbur Smith, River God
And in his eyes The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak, In different skies.
~ Wilfred Owen
Let me prevail as of old, as lover, as lord, as king, or have done with Love's tyrant rule.
~ WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT
If God had died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
I changed his name after I saw this old movie at the Snark. It's called Nosferatu, and it's the original Dracula story. It's ten times as scary as the version you see on television. The guy who plays the vampire is really bizarre.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.
~ Daniel Silva
To je bila tužna pri?a - re?e. - Je li istinita? - A koja nije? - kimnu starica.
~ Darko Macan
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
~ Dave Barry
Come, Mr. Mason, you know as well as I do that the American Empire is in decline, and dear Mr. Biden is old and decrepit, and has no stomach for a fight. He
~ David Archer
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
~ David Attenborough
Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....
~ David Baldacci
So, you can sort it?" Hirad's whisper was gruff. "Our elven friends are getting nervous about rapidly closing patrolmen and I'm getting old.
~ James Barclay
They almost looked like one of those old computers he'd heard about with a glassy screen called a monitor.
~ James Dashner
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
~ James Joyce
Winter unwraps a parcel of stones For old and sick and sad, and homeless walkers
~ James K. Baxter
In the old covenant God faithfully remained with His people, accompanying them in a pillar of fire and cloud, then dwelling among them in the tabernacle and the temple. Under the new covenant, the only temple is the believing community itself, and God dwells not only among the community corporately (Matt 18:20; 1 Cor 3:16; 2 Cor 6:16), but also in each member individually (John 14:17; Rom 8:9–11; 1 Cor 6:19). This is the overarching thesis this book seeks to establish.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
This was fresh, rich, heavenly, succulent, soft, creamy, kiss-my-ass, cows-gotta-die-for-this, delightfully salty, moo-ass, good old white folks cheese, cheese to die for, cheese to make you happy, cheese to beat the cheese boss, cheese for the big cheese, cheese to end the world
~ James McBride
Always that same old story—Father Time and Mother Earth,A marriage on the rocks.
~ James Merrill
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
~ James Russell Lowell