Old world Quotes

“It was a brave old world.”

— Mark A. Rayner

It's a funny old world.

— Margaret Thatcher

“Brave old world.”

— Ali Smith

“Don't clap too loudly—it's a very old world.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

— Christopher Columbus

Fifteen years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.”

— Molly Looby

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

— Maurice Sendak

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

— W. C. Fields

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

— Neil Young

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

— Dalton McGuinty

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what…

— Lister Sinclair

“It’s a funny old world, isn’t it? Just when you think you know someone, just when you think you know yourself…”

— Harlem Dae

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

— Antonio Gramsci

“She was now on her way to an old world that was nothing but new to her.”

— Abby Slovin

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

— Cody Garbrandt

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't…

— Carrie Underwood

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

— Hannes Holm

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can…

— Jürgen Moltmann

I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Columbus led wooden sailing ships across an ocean, seeking a new world. Today we sail with ships of metal across the cosmic…

— Daniel Arenson

“I like parents, old-school, old-world parents. So real. Just think of all they've seen in their lives. They were born in another…

— Laleh Khadivi

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away…

— Peter Diamandis

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any…

— Jamie Bell

“Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with…

— Jonathan Gash

We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The…

— Warren St. John

“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin…

— David Mitchell

“Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we’re fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive.…

— Daniel Quinn

How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that…

— Denis Diderot

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“You look beautiful,” my dad said as he walked over to me and offered his arm. His voice was quiet--even quieter than…

— Ree Drummond

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the…

— Thomas Paine

“Having fled to the New World, but with the scars of the Old World still etched in their skin, they had burned…

— Thomas Olde Heuvelt

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

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Sam the Sham

“Mac and I loved each other. It was timeless; an old world type of”

— Virginia Renaud

“the new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.”

— Padgett Powell

“We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one”

— Jennifer Niven