Old World Quotes
100 quotes by 95 authors
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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In…
— Jeff Bezos
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We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I believe…
— Shakti Gawain
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and…
— Harry Browne
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...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
— Karl Marx
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There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example,…
— Bat Masterson
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It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
— W.C. Fields
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I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote…
— Alan Keyes
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and…
— Randolph Bedford
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Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it…
— Hannah Arendt
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Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land…
— Luther Standing Bear
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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but…
— Edmond Taylor
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life…
— William Kittredge
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Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo…
— Karin Lowachee
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own…
— Rob Brezsny
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To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what…
— Rupert Murdoch
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes…
— Philip Reeve
Who Wrote These Old World Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 100 Old World Quotes, led by these top contributors: