Old World Quotes - Page 3

• I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.

  Sam the Sham

  Hey, World, Bigs

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• Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

  Glenn Frey

  Education, Baby, World

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• In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Father, Agriculture, India

  "Mukesh Ambani on cover of Newsweek". Newsweek Interview, www.hindustantimes.com. July 11, 2006.

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• We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

  Mao Zedong

  World, Study, Building

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.305, China Books

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• Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

  Flora Thompson

  Regret, Past, Views

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• There is no new world that you make without the old world.

  Jane Jacobs

  World, New World

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Struggle, People

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Justice, Want

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.177, Beacon Press

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• This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.

  Lee Roberson

  Crazy, Writing, Men

  Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.470, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

  Margaret Deland

  Sorry, Heavy Things, World

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• Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And cannot make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan
  Repeating us by rote:
  For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
  And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
  Of the unexhausted West,
  With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Hero, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Strong, Hands

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

  Gina Bellman

  Connections, World, Village

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• I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

  Madchen Amick

  Magic, Different, World

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• The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Air, Bird

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Doctors, Catholic

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Order, Important, World

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.

  John Dewey

  Giving Up, Military, Struggle

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology”, p.365, Indiana University Press

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• I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Beautiful, Thinking, Views

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.

  James Bryce

  Religious, War, Europe

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• The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.

  Horace Bushnell

  Cities, Age, Gunpowder

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• It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Hope, Light

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.555, Delphi Classics

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• Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Golf

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• Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Bird, Design

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