Old World Quotes

100 Old World quotes by 94 unique authors

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that… — Henry David Thoreau
We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the… — Mao Zedong
It's a funny old world. — Margaret Thatcher
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire â€” where the old world looked… — Catherynne M. Valente
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and… — Ayad Akhtar
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning. — Glenn Frey
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference… — James Madison
Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then… — Cindy Gallop
It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now. — Robert Palmer
I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do. — Sam the Sham
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the… — Marshall McLuhan
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture. — Mukesh Ambani
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one… — Bayard Taylor
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in… — Gifford Pinchot
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at… — Warren St. John
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. — Christopher Columbus
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received… — Jared Diamond
I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. — Julian Fellowes

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