- Big Fan
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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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dreadlocks were easy to maintain: I got up in the morning and flicked my head. If they got too big, I'd pull them apart every now and again. In the end, I got too old for them.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is Germany now and where does it want to go? It's a question being asked by our partners and allies abroad. We have to return - urgently - to our old dependability. We have to make clear for others what we stand for, where we're headed, and that we know where we belong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been trying face products since I was, like 13, 12 years old. I use to break out a lot, especially in my teen years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020