- Mad
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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
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a few kids out there who like singing to my songs. They're, like, five, six, seven years old.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I had this fascination with old bones and being able to diagnose disease in old bones. And I was doing that, and started to do bone reports for the Channel 4 series 'Time Team'.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people do specials, like, when they've only been doing comedy for three years or something. Which is fine! But I'm kind of old fashioned, and I knew that I didn't want to do one too early.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.
- Cosmos
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.
- Aristocratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020