Old Folks Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Old Folks

Old Folks Quotes & Sayings

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I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. — Fernando Pessoa

As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over. — Erin Morgenstern

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway. — Gloria Naylor

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews. — Sere Prince Halverson

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home. — Michael Caine

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be. — George Eliot

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

I've always heard the old folks say that if you don't know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn't complain if it passes you by. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Old folks are the nation. — Toni Cade Bambara

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo. — Shane Claiborne

Old folks is the nation. — Toni Cade Bambara

Wouldn't this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
'I know something good about you,'
And then treat us that way? — N. Eldon Tanner

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old. — Stephen Colbert

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward. — Prince

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. — Mark Twain

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. — Francis Bacon

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. — John Hodgman

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people! — T. Harv Eker

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. — Frank A. Clark

When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them. — Maya Angelou

As the flowers are all made sweeter
by the sunshine and the dew,
So this old world is made brighter
by the lives of folks like you. — Bonnie Parker

These young folks, with that twerking, I thought, just like an old fart. — R.K. Lilley

The old folk, time's doting chronicles. — William Shakespeare

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther

Tell me, if I ever caught you
and kissed the arch of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little after that
for fear of crushing my kiss? ... — Nichita Stanescu

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare

Old folks don't lie to their friends. They don't have the time. — P.S. Meronek

Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list. — Denis Leary

But Cal," Jem protested, "you don't look even near as old as Atticus."
"Colored folks don't show their ages so fast," she said. — Harper Lee

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. — Gayla Reid

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. — Myron Scholes