Quotes About Old

If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.

Is she—dying?" Izzy whispered. It was a ridiculous question, but in that moment she was honestly terrified this might be true. If a soul could leave a body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.

His father's oldest habit: taking words apart like old clocks to show the gears still ticking inside.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing his grizzled red beard by this time, unless you came straight from the old un without any father at all betwixt you; which I shouldn't wonder at, a bit.

She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.

Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.

Indeed!" said Defarge, with much indifference. "Yes, indeed. When Doctor Manette was released, you, his old domestic, had the charge of him, I know. He was delivered to you. You see I am informed

And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen---an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances---but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire, with the wind blowing outside till every timber in the old house creaked again, Tom Smart found it perfectly delightful.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella.

The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Yet the knowledge of what is possible lives on inside each of us, inextinguishable. Let us trust this knowing, hold each other in it, and organize our lives around it. Do we really have any choice, as the old world falls apart? Shall we settle for anything less than a sacred world?

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

They are to be constant in the exercise of charity and almsgiving, to have a watchful care over all sick brethren, and to support and sustain all old men.

Did you ever find some really old ice cream way back in your freezer all crusty and freezer burned? That stuff is gross, isn't it? At first.

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die...

...we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till ten at night.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.