Old World Quotes
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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
— Rolf Harris
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
— Annie Dillard
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— Eva Gabor
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
— Daniel Quinn
It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
— Glenn Frey
Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas.
— Dacha Avelin
People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.
— Zicheng Hong
My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
— Christy Hall
I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special.
— Pierce Brown
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger.
— Debasish Mridha
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
— Marshall McLuhan
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
— Will Rogers
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
— Rose Wilder Lane
The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
— Padgett Powell
Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
— Simon Pegg
Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
— Dacha Avelin
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.
— Hunter Murphy
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
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
— L.M. Montgomery
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
— Dalai Lama
New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.
— Jack Kerouac
New technologies compete with old ones - for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.
— Neil Postman
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
— Phil Ochs
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
— Wilkie Collins
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
— Frank Stella
John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
— George Eliot
In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.
— Wayne W. Dyer
There is poetry of sailing as old as the world,
— E.L. James
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ...
— Jose Saramago
Our moon," he answered, "is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them.
— George MacDonald
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
— Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
— Peggy Noonan
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
If we must encounter each other, let's do it the old way - in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.
— Meghan Tifft
There isn't a new sorrow in the world
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way. — Myrtle Reed
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way. — Myrtle Reed
We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.
— Jennifer Niven
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
— Maurice Sendak
The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care
— Charles Bukowski
There was too much magic in the world to become bitter and jaded and growing up didn't have to mean growing old.
— Lili Valente
The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
— Carrie Vaughn
I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.
— Sebastian Coe
Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake.
— Liane Moriarty
You can't use an old map to explore a new world.
— Albert Einstein
I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
— Robin Hobb
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
— Willa Cather
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
— Ted Hughes
We're gonna be ... I mean people like you and me ... we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
— Armistead Maupin
Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
— Lucinda Williams
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I
— John Green
You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing.
— Shirley Sealy
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
— Madame De Stael
The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
— Madchen Amick
I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.
— Tricia Helfer
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
— Quincy Jones
I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.
— Lenny Kravitz
Every spoken sentence beginning with 'I Am' is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.
— Dacha Avelin
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
— Brittany Bowe
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
— Florence King
Spellwork is a form of creation. Manifesting the invisible and the imaginable into real life verifiable forms, through perfectly natural means.
— Dacha Avelin
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
— Jim Harrison
I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old.
— V.C. Andrews
Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
— Stephen King
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
— A.B. Shepherd
A witch works with the truth of the Earth itself.
— Dacha Avelin
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
— Robert Ludlum
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.
— Mardy Grothe
I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.
— Lance Olsen
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
— Johnny Vegas
now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea
I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
— Bobby Fischer
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
— Terry Pratchett
The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.
— Raymond Kwok
This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
— Robert Harris
Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.
— Victoria Forester
This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.
— Jimmy Fallon
When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job.
— Mickey Rooney
Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
— Fennel Hudson
Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.
— Clive Barker
Never see the world with am infant eye, but let it be as old as you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson