Quotes About Old

For she was being enticed again by a very old dream, one so old that she had thought it quite incapable of being revived. She had thought it could never bring her pain again.

Was it possible that he still retained some of the old regard for her?

But faith is still there, and silent. Then he who owns the incomparable voice suddenly flows upward and out of the room and I follow, obedient and happy. Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path, carrying his sandals, and singing?

Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. — Mary Oliver, from "What I Have Learned So Far," New and Selected Poems . (Beacon Press; Reprint, 2001 edition July 1, 1993)

We're tenting tonight               on the old camp ground;        Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

I know," she said. "Sadly, we have only bits and pieces of many wonderful old stories." "What's the story about?" asked Annie. "It's an ancient Irish tale about a great serpent named Sarph," said Morgan.

Water rolled down the face of the old house like tears

Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. One was old, with silver hairs and countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.

there's always something there, if one can find the treatment. The same old material, the same old line, the same old setting – all that counts is the quality of the mind that processes them.

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.

Ed eccomi infatti adesso con la vecchia storia di scriverti che vorrei dirti buonanotte invece di scrivertelo e, sì, è una storia che si è fatta ormai davvero vecchia, ma spero che questo sia il suo ultimo capitolo. (I miei sogni mi appartengono: Lettere della donna che reinventò la paura)

The political fractures from which it arose have not been fixed. History has shown that unless conditions genuinely change, a new insurgency always arises from the ashes of an old one.

This is the old part of Tehran, with small spice shops, dusty narrow alleys with dry streams winding into houses with tall protective walls.

The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete.

That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.

I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

who was a fine old king in the old ancient times,