- Born
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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
- Bumper
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- Nov 07, 2020
A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
- Poem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every old poem is sacred.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
- Too
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm too old to be a yuppie.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020