Old World Quotes
100 Old World quotes by 94 unique authors
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I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
— Kimora Lee Simmons
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and…
— Billy Sunday
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period,…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
— Lucinda Williams
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Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words…
— Joseph Stalin
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
— Neil Young
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The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant…
— Hilary Mantel
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The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and…
— Barbara Tuchman
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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real…
— Shannon Hale
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I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you…
— Jeannette Walls
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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember…
— Carrie Underwood
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Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old…
— Charles Eisenstein
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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Old World Quotes
94 authors contributed a total of 100 Old World Quotes, led by these top contributors: