- Horse
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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
- Fine Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department. But it was out of tune.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
- Lock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was five, 10, 15 years old, I always dreamed of being in the best league in the world, playing with some of the best clubs.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020