Old Days Quotes

• Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Rough Edges, Nostalgia

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• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

  Bette Davis

  Hero, People, Giving

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Memories, Ironic

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.

  Adam Ant

  Sex, Two, Feet

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• In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Atheism, Age

  Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.

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• The good old days are now.

  Tom Clancy

  Good Old Days

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Forever, Gone

  "Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Jumping back into it was easy as apple pie, it was natural. Honestly, I'm not trying to be nostalgic and talk about the old days but I really believe wholeheartedly that the three of us, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself really learned how to play our instruments together and now that we are playing together again it can't be anything but natural.

  Reed Mullin

  Believe, Jumping, Play

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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

  Kreayshawn

  Boys, Simple, Games

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• 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

  Guy, Arriving, Actors

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• 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

  Umpires, League, Three

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• In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Long, People, Done

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• Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Apples, People, Going Away

  PayLane Interview, blog.paylane.com.

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• I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

  Joel Plaskett

  Real, Boys, Men

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Past, Thinking, Nostalgia

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.

  Robert Hass

  Believe, Ideas, Russia

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

  Andy Rooney

  War, People, World

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• This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

  Mike Pence

  Believe, People, Stuff

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 32), 1990.

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• Im 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

  Past, Inspired, Lift Me Up

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• The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

  Artie Shaw

  Right Now, Good Old Days

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• When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

  Dave Grohl

  Focus, Stories, Done

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• Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

  Ziggy Marley

  Waiting, Realizing, Good Old Days

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Mar 12, 2012

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