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Fear of the unknown makes us slaves of the old. — Nityananda Das

Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry 'I want my mommy' no matter how old we get. — Richelle E. Goodrich

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US. — Donald Rumsfeld

JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job. — Eve Plumb

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today - but it is, because it is part of God's Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages. — Billy Graham

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

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. — Brene Brown

Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy. — Azar Nafisi

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better. — John D. Rockefeller

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. — Harold W. Dodds

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day. — Daniel Barenboim

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. — William Shenstone

The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I — Pierce Brown

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

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another. — George Eliot

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall. — Phil Ochs

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. — C. G. Jung

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue. — Jeremy Grantham

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. — Daniel Hanley

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God. — Willis R. Whitney

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation. — Thomas Paine

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

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. — John Updike

There was an emotion in the air that encompassed all of us, made us feel we'd shed our old skins and the past was irrelevant. — Robert F. Worth

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty. — Hans Cloos

I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves. — Jennifer Garner

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. — Steve Maraboli

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it. — Barry Humphries

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 years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way. — Corrie Ten Boom

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it. — Nelson Rockefeller

The smartphones that distract us from our surroundings also distract us from the fact that our surroundings are strangely old: — Peter Thiel

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! — Al Dubin

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place. — Wei Jingsheng

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Can't we kidnap Old Jethro, force him to help us, then vanquish him and the healer? Bran choked on his drink. — P.C. Cast

We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones. — Marty Rubin

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised. — Julian Barnes

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

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. — Josh Billings

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. — Julie Walters

The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains. — Neal A. Maxwell

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates. — Andy Stanley

Calmness and confidence are the source of energy brings with itself unlimited opportunities. Let us but ring out the old, ring in the new. — Kishore Bansal

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

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne. — Shane Claiborne

What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go? — Tess Gerritsen

Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you? — Robert A. Heinlein

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. — Helen Palmer Geisel

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fuck me," said Roger. He spit a mouthful of stomach acid into the hall and looked at the bodies. "Look at the old man, going all Bruce Willis on us. — Peter Clines

Each genre and part of the Old Testament looks toward Christ and informs us about who he is in some way that the others do not. — Timothy Keller

Some of us walk about with the burden of old wounds. What must it be like to have the burden of ... healing? — Julie Anne Long

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old! — D.L. Moody

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. — Louise Erdrich

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. — Eleanor Farjeon

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue. — Joy Williams

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new. — Percy Dearmer

Let us search the old highways. — H.D.

The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us. — Alexandra Robbins

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. — Jean De La Bruyere

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. — Eric Hoffer

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. — William J. Clinton

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. — Sharon Salzberg

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married. — Robert Blake

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it? — Jean De La Bruyere

That's the purpose of old age ... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did. — Colleen McCullough

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us. — Sarah Palin

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. — Ron White

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God. — Echo Bodine

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] — Virginia Woolf

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. — Gloria Pitzer

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

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us. — Macklemore

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears. — Graham Greene

Like old times. The three of us together. Fighting for a better — Rick Riordan

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves. — E.W. Howe

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them. — John Bunyan

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.. — Drew Carey

That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb. — John Green