Old Folks Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is… — Maya Angelou
Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. — Gayla Reid
In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in… — Susanna Tamaro
I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial… — Esther Dyson
Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as… — Stephen Foster
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to… — Art Linkletter
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. — Mark Twain
When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house… — Shaquille O'Neal
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's… — Sarah Louise Delany
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a… — Louis Armstrong
The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she finally pulled into… — Jennifer Rardin
There is no way Iâ€™m going out in public like this!â€ It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out… — Jeaniene Frost
Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something.… — Jennifer Donnelly
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther
What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care,… — Charles B. Rangel
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when… — Harriet Tubman
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing… — Earl Scruggs
Don't you know that old folks' homes smell so much like my own. — Isaac Brock

Who Wrote These Old Folks Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Old Folks Quotes as follows: