Old Man Quotes - Page 12

• General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

  James K. Polk

  Men, Judging, Doubt

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• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Negative, Growing

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• Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

  Frank Deford

  Athlete, Men, Sticks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

  Italo Calvino

  Men, Lord, Happened

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Italian Folktales”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

  Peter Cook

  Night, Men, Garbage

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.61, Random House

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• I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

  James Thurber

  Running, Believe, Men

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• The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

  James Thurber

  Men, Hell

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.648, Library of America

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• A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

  Ben Folds

  Men, Thinking, Years

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

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• He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.

  Frank McCourt

  Country, War, Dark

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

  Ken Watanabe

  Regret, Men, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Saito". "Inception", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.

  Art Linkletter

  Winning, Past, Men

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• The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people ... I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't want someone to swap out my stomach with a supermodel. I don't want dirty old men looking at me in my underwear.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Dirty, Men, Mirrors

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• The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

  R. S. Thomas

  Men, Knowing, Waste

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• The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Men, Parent

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

  Charles Frazier

  Grandchildren, Men, Passing On

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

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• I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fighting, Men, Wish

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

  Trent Reznor

  Kids, Makeup, Men

  "Trent Reznor Explains the State of NIN" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Here I Am, Long

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

  Nick Kroll

  Men, Years, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have mentioned, what fear could they possibly have from a old man with dimming eyesight, arthritis, diabetes, and other health issues that render me hardly a threat to anyone.

  Leonard Peltier

  Men, Issues, Purpose

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.

  Naomi Watts

  Pain, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, People, Mind

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese minority the Burakumin, which was pure Japanese in descent, but which was concerned with dirty work: leather work, cadavers, and some other things.There was a famous story of an old man who asked: 'Do you yourself believe you are the same as the Japanese?' And the outsider said: 'I do not know, we are dirty.' This kind of conscience was never there in the surroundings in which I lived. One always felt as someone whom could be proud of, being both German and Jewish.

  Norbert Elias

  Believe, Dirty, Ghetto

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Van Ness, but that was the first time that I had met him on the Gay Of Thrones set, and as soon as we sat down, it was clear that just about anything he was going to say I was going to have no idea what it meant. I have literally no idea, so that ended up being a really fun bit to find, like "The old man doesn't know what kids talk about." We started talking about red carpets. I was taught how to stand on the red carpet. Put your hand in your pocket and that's it. That's literally all a guy has to do.

  Timothy Simons

  Fun, Kids, Gay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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