- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Quotes
Old age, old habits, and old traditions worth keeping.
This set uses 'old' loosely, from feeling worn down by constant criticism in a creative career to impatience with distractions that don't matter anymore. For quotes centered on the number itself, see Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I been doing music since I was 15 years old. I found it intriguing, just from liking and listening to music.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom - when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a competitor, and since I was 2 years old, I have always wanted to be the best at whatever I was doing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020