The Old Days Quotes

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy. — Hollis Seamon

Remember me for these days, not the old ones. — Mitch Albom

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. — Paul Feig

In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny. — Jose Froilan Gonzalez

The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap. — Colum McCann

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now. — Clare Boothe Luce

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. — Tim Winton

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days. — Jennifer O'Neill

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Martin Jackson

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old. — Caroline Norton

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame De Stael

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. — Paul Broun

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. — Luther Vandross

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. — Pat Oliphant

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. — Ty Cobb

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout. — Pete Rose

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. — Jonathan Galassi

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. — Jimi Hendrix

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days. — Ziggy Marley

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days. — Alonzo Bodden

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis. — Kathy Bryson

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry. — P. J. O'Rourke

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you. — Bill Paxton

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple. — Kreayshawn

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. — Madame De Stael

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. — Steffi Graf

Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. — Dick Gregory

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers. — Jason Alexander

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside. — Jon Stewart

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett

Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing

OVER AND OVER — Deyth Banger

I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. — Rodney Dangerfield

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. — Frank Woolley

We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future. — Toba Beta

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and — Kenneth Grahame

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI

In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person. — Cathy Hopkins

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. — Gilbert Hernandez

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. — Valerie June

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. — Jennifer Crusie

my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus — Karen Marie Moning

Those [old] days are gone ... accept the reality and do it. — Ava DuVernay

As your product evolves, adding new features becomes as easy as it was in the good old days of greenfield development. — Scott Millett

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. — Lee Iacocca

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things. — Terry Jones

Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days. — Mohammed Hanif

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! — Prince Philip

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. — Jimmy Hoffa

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster — Claude C. Hopkins

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead. — Alice Childress

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away. — Jane Mendelsohn

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! — Matsuo Basho

What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons. — C.T. Phipps

The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa — Margarita Engle

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. — Charles Simmons

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man. — Brad Renfro

Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read? — Karen Marie Moning

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. — Robert Orben

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — G.K. Chesterton

Mourning the old glad days before they knew
What evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. — Oscar Wilde

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan

Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon. — Liane Moriarty

Axonn sighed. "Just like the good old days," he said. "Now I remember why I hated them so much. — Greg Farshtey

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. — Kabir Bedi

I sometimes wish for the old days when audiences used to be ignorant of world cinema and our inspired works were seen as originals. — Yashvir Dalaya

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground! — Natasha Henstridge

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.' — Brandon Flowers

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people. — Bill Nighy

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. — Richard Henry Stoddard

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them. — Ed Helms

Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. — Trevor Nunn

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity. — Jay Paterno

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. — Joe Biden

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. — Howie Carr

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt. — Robert Wagner

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. — Robert Briffault

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. — Oscar Wilde

Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion. — James S.A. Corey

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity. — David Halberstam

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age. — David Levithan

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days. — Joel Osteen

I would have liked the old days. — David Wells

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. — Mary McGrory

The nights and days had merged, trapped in that little house held captive by a stubborn old woman. — Srividya Srinivasan

Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise. — Anonymous

Anyone can say he's a magician these days. The old standards are gone, the old values have been abandoned. Besides, a real magician has a beard. — Peter S. Beagle

Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days. — William Butler Yeats

Dachux: It's not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions. — C.D. Sutherland