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My old man is a man of few words. — Scott Eastwood

He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged. — Hanya Yanagihara

The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words. Ghosts don't take the interstate. — Neil Gaiman

Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up." — Matt Skiba

No words and I knew with certainty that Bangley had killed his old man. — Peter Heller

He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. — Sherman Alexie

The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true. — Gerry Spence

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years. — Sherman Alexie

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you? — Marty Rubin

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

New words are always being born and old ones fading away. — Patience Strong

Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn — Munia Khan

You are never too old to be daring. Whether fifteen or ninety-five...believe your words have power. And use them. — Natalie Lloyd

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. — Zora Neale Hurston

Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them. — Coco Rocha

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. — Aristophanes

Imagination is an old soul. — Richard Bach

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words. — Jack Kerouac

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it. — Munia Khan

You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old. — Paul Weller

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes. — David Pietrusza

You're never too old to make a fool of yourself — Michael Perkins

Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world. — Kathleen M. O'Connor

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. — Chinua Achebe

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. — Ed Markey

I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop. — Cath Crowley

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. — George Clinton

No one is ever too old for stories." ~ Durban Chola — E.M. Swift-Hook

Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami

Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy. — Pablo Neruda

The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. — Frederick Buechner

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you! — Charles Dickens

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words. — Tim O'Brien

How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered. — Ragnar Lodbrok

Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So all my best is dressing old words new. — William Shakespeare

Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words. — Louise Erdrich

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) — J.D. Salinger

I like the old words better. They're like old friends. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." — William J. Clinton

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it. — Frank Herbert

Youthful exuberance is splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places. — Erica Jong

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde. — Barry Gifford

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal

Once we were young, now we are adult. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire

There are certain words that should never be spoken, names that should never be used. Old things. Undead things. — Michael Scott

Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other. — William Joyce

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver

What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change. — Michelene Wandor

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May. — Jimmy Hill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish. — Harry Turtledove

Every past used to be a future once upon a time — Munia Khan

Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them. — Cornelia Funke

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. — Cesare Pavese

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head. — Samuel Beckett

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name. — Anthony Marra

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. — Betty Hart

When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left. — Claire North

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. — Elias Canetti

The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. — Joseph Bottum

Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size. — George Burns

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. — Winston Churchill

The churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words — Samuel Beckett

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. — Michel De Montaigne

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect. — Alan Brennert

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. — George Eliot

One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium) — Ali Smith

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. — Jim Bishop

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'. — Tove Jansson

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. — Alan Watts

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

Young. Old. Just Words. — George Burns

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. — Hannibal

Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara No Teika

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity. — Eric Samuel Timm