Quotes About Old

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across -- go beyond.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

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This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

He looked at the old case file he had pulled and still held in his hand. He put the phone down on the coffee table and leaned back on the couch and opened the file.

He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds.

the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.

Yeah. You ever see that Sidney Lumet movie The Verdict?" "I don't think so. I don't go to a lot of movies anymore." "It's an old one with Paul Newman. I went through a Paul Newman phase. Anyway, he's a lawyer—a drunk, actually—and he tries to drum up business by going to funerals and passing out business cards.

Like many detectives he preferred to use his own laptop because the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.

When you walked the dog, did you see anything unusual on the street?" Ballard asked the old woman. "Anybody out of place?" "No, nothing unusual," Lantana said. "Is there any construction on the street? Workers hanging around?