Old Folks Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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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
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Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
— Gayla Reid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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
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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
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There is no way I’m going out in public like this!†It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out…
— Jeaniene Frost
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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
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
— Martin Luther
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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
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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
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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
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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: