Old Man Quotes - Page 30

• Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, War, Men

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• I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

  Brett Dennen

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.uncommonmusic.org

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

  Tony Blackburn

  Men, Years, Laughing

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Men, Phones

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• I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

  Ned Beatty

  Men, Perfect, Example

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• My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Father, Men, Musician

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• The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Dad, Book, Men

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Character, Boys, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

  Mike Greenberg

  Sports, Country, Growing Up

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

  George Carlin

  War, Men, Class

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• I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, People, Adaptation

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• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

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• I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

  Sergio Garcia

  Kids, Men, Years

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• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  George C. Scott

  Boys, Men, Years

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• My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

  Colm Meaney

  Stars, Thinking, Worry

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Tea, Age

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• Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Dirty, Men

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• Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Affection

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• Inside many of us
  is a small old man
  who wants to get out.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Age, Want

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When and where will another come to take your holy place?
  Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

  Margaret Walker

  Children, Men, Holy Places

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side
  Is now the fitting place for thee:
  When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
  The youthful tendril yet may hide,
  The ruins of the parent tree.

  Walter Scott

  Daughter, Pride, Men

  Walter Scott (2016). “Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Years, Age

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• If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, America, Special

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