Old Quotes
15062 Old quotes by 7634 unique authors
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When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
— Unknown Author
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Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.
— George Raveling
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Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond…
— Anna Sewell
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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
— Joe Montana
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I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the…
— Duke Ellington
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved…
— Sidney Crosby
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You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.
— Stan Mikita
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Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've…
— Jaromir Jagr
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He's as old as some trees.
— Pat Burns
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That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.
— Grant Fuhr
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How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls…
— Basilea Schlink
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
— Austin Phelps
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Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see…
— P. W. Singer
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In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality…
— Rajneesh
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It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was…
— Unknown Author
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
— Oscar Wilde
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Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
— Unknown Author
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have…
— Adolf Hitler
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While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than…
— Sean O'Casey
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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
— Art Hoppe
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
— Chris Hedges
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