- Man
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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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in the house. That's all my momma used to play around the house was oldies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020