Old Man Quotes - Page 14

• I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett.

  Garrett Clayton

  Jobs, Men, Names

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

  Amos Oz

  Men, Irrevocable

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Hair

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• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

  Keith Ellison

  Kings, Fighting, Successful

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent wonders from the sky and words from Scripture. He sent the testimony of the heavens and the teaching of the prophets. But Herod refused to listen. He chose his puny dynasty over Christ. He died a miserable old man.

  Max Lucado

  Teaching, Men, Sky

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Emotional, Together

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

  Charlie Brooker

  Hate, Technology, Men

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Men, People

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• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Father, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289

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• John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  War, Men, Voice

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• When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Age, Forsaken

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.145

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• And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

  Bret Harte

  Men, Sight, Soldier

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.27, VM eBooks

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• He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Doe, Stealing

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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• Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

  Diogenes

  Marriage, Men, Young

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• You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Sea, Giving

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• Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
  Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
  A boy the old man ne'er can be;
  Maternal thirty scarce can find
  The sweet sixteen long left behind.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sweet, Boys, Men

  "Youth and Age". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough,

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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• The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Age, Coats

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• Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

  John Donne

  Men, Sight, Young

  1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.

  Howard Thurman

  Children, Heart, Men

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

  Warren Farrell

  Suicide, Jobs, Loss

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Men, Boys

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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