Old Time Quotes - Page 5

• Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Hands, Agriculture

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.213, Best Books on

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• My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Tunes, Littles

  "Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass Legend, Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

  Erro

  New York, Memories, Warm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years.

  Aurel Stein

  Opportunity, Years, Land

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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• I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

  Robert Crumb

  Player, Curiosity, Dying

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Mountain, Fit

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• It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hands, Walking Hand In Hand, Dying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, Mountain, Folks

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• The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

  Tom Courtenay

  Boys, Play, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown.

  Rory Block

  Country, Knights, Names

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• It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.

  David Grisman

  Boys, Two Friends, Mountain

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• "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Order, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.152, Advaita Ashrama

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• Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Giving, Demon

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• If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Sexy, Moving

  "She Is Legend". Interview with Mark Healy, www.marieclaire.com. May 6, 2009.

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• If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Ocean, Rushing, Soul

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1962). “Bulletin”

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Hammers, Pace

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• In an old time
  there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

  Anne Sexton

  Wise, Wisdom, Kings

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Men, History

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873). “The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine”, p.165

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• I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

  Kurt Sutter

  Writing, Focus, Guy

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• Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

  Amor Towles

  Father, Used, Fishes

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

  Paul Simon

  Crazy, Beer, Night

  "Still Crazy After All These Years". Song by Paul Simon, March 26, 1976.

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• Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Laughter, Book, Expression

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• This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Character, Men, Trying

  "Selected Essays by Ahad Ha'am". Book by Ahad Ha'am, 2005.

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• Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f--king 'Purple Rain', but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Old Time Rock & Roll'? People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f--king ass.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t--s.' Doesn't really f--king do much for me.

  Kid Rock

  Sweet, Kings, Nice

  "Kid Rock gets stung by Beyonce's 'Beyhive' after slamming the singer but his response is KILLER" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. February 28, 2015.

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