Old Time Quotes

• "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Fans, Pieces, Bigs

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

  Clint Black

  Christmas, Song, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Massachusetts, Conventions

  7 Copy quote

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Nostalgia, All Time

  "The Age of Bronze" st. 1 (1823)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  15 Copy quote

• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  John Milton

  Running, Time, Age

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

  Caroline Norton

  Men, Age, Graves

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

  Francis Bacon

  Reverence, Scorn

  5 Copy quote

• A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

  George F. Kennan

  Time, Guests, Members

  Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The WiseMen (1986).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

  163 Copy quote

• I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

  Billy Sunday

  Heart, Years, Two

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Passion, Vices

  11 Copy quote

• Old Time the clock-setter.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Clock

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

  Bob Seger

  Fashion, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.

  John Carpenter

  Gone, Today, Environment

  5 Copy quote

• One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

  Sei Shonagon

  Details, Stories, Littles

  Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

  Virginia Madsen

  Night, Play, Radio

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

  Ketch Secor

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

  Anthony Eden

  Time, Discovery, Succeed

  17 Copy quote

• I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Past, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source