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Quotes About Old

soy el viejo Benson —dijo con una inclinación de la cabeza y una sonrisa misteriosa—. Mayordomo de la familia Black
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Everything I do is autobiographical. I'm into old ladies because I've been one for some considerable time now.
~ Judith Kerr
I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.
~ Hit-Boy
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
~ Ezra Pound
Make-strong old dreams lest this our world lose heart
~ Ezra Pound
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood, Knowing the truth of things unseen before; Of Daphne and the laurel bow And that god-feasting couple old that grew elm-oak amid the wold. 'Twas not until the gods had been Kindly entreated, and been brought within Unto the hearth of their heart's home That they might do this wonder thing; Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood And many a new thing understood That was rank folly to my head before.
~ Ezra Pound
The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.
~ Faith Martin
You're on Facebook, Uncle Reid?" Athens asked. "Of course he is," Liliana said. "That's where all the old people go to waste their time." "Hey,
~ Farrah Rochon
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
~ Federico Fellini
The he-lizard is crying. The she-lizard is crying. The he-lizard and the she-lizard with little white aprons. Have lost without wanting to their wedding ring. Ah, their little leaden wedding ring, ah, their little ring of lead! A large sky without people carries the birds in its balloon. The sun, rotund captain, wears a satin waistcoat. Look how old they are! How old the lizards are! Oh, how they cry and cry, Oh! Oh! How they go on crying!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The cave smelt of the sea, but it was not a cheerful seaside smell. It reeked as if the sea were something old and evil. This sea licked the flesh off shipwrecks, leaving the bare wooden bones in the lightless deep. Its mermaids were green-skinned and squid-eyed with long, hooked fingers and breath that smelt of old fish.
~ Frances Hardinge
There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.
~ Billy Graham
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
~ Bob Feller
I'm afraid I have a very old guy opinion. You want customers raving about your brand? Sell them a good fucking product.
~ Bob Hoffman
Mack drove over to Boot Hill, an old cemetery where they'd buried the second-place finishers in gunfights of yore.
~ Bob Sanchez
I'm little but I'm old
~ Harper Lee
The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend.
~ Haruki Murakami
From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.
~ Haruki Murakami
both make the connection with objects from our past, too, and like to live surrounded by old things that wouldn't pass as antiques and aren't valuable to anyone except us.
~ Heather Lende
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
~ Heinrich Heine
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
~ Elliott Carter
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
~ George Oppen
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
~ Octavio Paz