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Old Quotes by Bill Bryson
- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last…
- I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his…
- But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
- ... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these…
- Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a…
- Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the…
- Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just…
- Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
More Old Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe