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Old Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved…
- An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is…
- Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old,…
- Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all…
- The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to…
- You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go…
- With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way…
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