Old Stories Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps
— George MacKay
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I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right…
— Logan Lerman
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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
— Greil Marcus
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When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary,…
— James Arthur Ray
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The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own…
— Anselm Kiefer
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You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the…
— James Hillman
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What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out…
— Kameron Hurley
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There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
— Danny Bonaduce
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I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience…
— Jackie Mason
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That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to…
— Nainoa Thompson
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people…
— Henry Rollins
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And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
— Paulo Coelho
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Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a…
— China Mieville
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We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
— Neil Gaiman
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Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
— Terry Pratchett
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You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man…
— Dan Brown
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered…
— Sherman Alexie
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Old stories often turn out to be true.
— Arthur Machen
Who Wrote These Old Stories Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 29 Old Stories Quotes, led by these top contributors: