Old people Quotes · Page 5

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

— Bindi Irwin

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

— Jeanne Calment

'I was sat there telling a two year old... People pay to hear me sing!' - Gary Barlow

— Gary Barlow

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

— Jennifer Hudson

“Sometimes you've gotta humor the old people.”

— Jennifer Brown

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

— Stromae

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

— Nachman of Breslov

“A comfortable old age without health is poverty.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Culture is for old people. When you’re young you have your body, and that’s all you need,

— John Currin

Old people they lose their sex life and that's not a good time. That's why they get divorced all the time.

— Anonymous

You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

— Darryl White

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children…

— Rickie Lee Jones

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre…

— Erica Schroeder

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

— Grace Slick

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's…

— Willa Cather

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds…

— Henry David Thoreau

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has…

— Nina Hagen

“The spinster noticed that her mother, who had seemed not displeased to remark that Mme d’Arpajon was one of those tired old…

— Marcel Proust

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…

— Tom Wolfe

I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the…

— Om Puri

See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No.…

— Rachel Caine

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like…

— Emmanuelle Seigner

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic… We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society…

— Maggie Kuhn

“She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin…

— Primo Levi

If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food…

— Richard Russo

“Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs. The best…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity…

— Donald Hall

“Why do some people live a comfortable life and others live one that is horror-filled? What part of ourselves do we shave…

— Kim Echlin

“For no matter whether the fairies are seen metaphorically or as real beings inhabiting their own real world, a study of them…

— Eddie Lenihan

Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it…

— Jared Diamond

“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

— Bill Medley

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

— Plato

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

— Louisa May Alcott

I think it's an actor's gift to be as old as people think you are.

— Essie Davis

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

— Jack Klugman

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

— Grace Slick

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

— Hippocrates

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

— Mark Twain