Old Man Quotes - Page 4

• The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning, Hero, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man, George C. Wolfe (2000). “Spunk: Three Tales”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Men, Nuts, America

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• I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.

  William Wendt

  Men, World, Realizing

  Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Wendt (1977). “William Wendt, 1865-1946”

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• We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Children, Believe, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.92, Random House

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• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

  Honore de Balzac

  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

  Alex Katz

  Men, Painting, Masters

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• What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Men, Important

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Long

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• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  George Osborne

  Party, Men, Benches

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

  Marco Polo

  Men, Atheism, Assassins

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• The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Book, Men, White

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• That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Age, Weak Points

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• Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Guy

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• You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Dream, Men, Voice

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.

  Steven Moffat

  Men, Magic, Stories

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• You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

  Ken Kesey

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.70, Hamilton Books

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• suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

  e. e. cummings

  Flower, Men, Life Is

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.23, C.H.Beck

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• Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Rain, Home, Men

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• But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

  John Green

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, May 3, 2012.

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• The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• You never see an old man eating a Twix

  Karl Pilkington

  Men, Eating

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• The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

  Stephen Moyer

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
 In the cradle a child is screaming.
 An old man sits over his death, and anyone
 young enough talks to his love, breathes 
into her lips, looks into her eyes.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Children, Sleep, Eye

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet

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