Old
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it's scary to face change and the unknown.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package'. I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it — young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous — is changed by it.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
It's — the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers — very smart people.
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements — whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
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