Old Time Quotes

• "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Massachusetts, Conventions

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• I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Fans, Pieces, Bigs

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

  Clint Black

  Christmas, Song, Writing

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Nostalgia, All Time

  "The Age of Bronze" st. 1 (1823)

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• Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Passion, Vices

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• Old Time the clock-setter.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Clock

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

  Bob Seger

  Fashion, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Echoes, Sound

  Charles Dickens (1851). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales”

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• What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Missing, Singing

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• Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

  Ezra Pound

  War, Debt, Slavery

  Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

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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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• 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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• The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

  Steve McVey

  Cutting, Want, Today

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• The old time strongmen used to lift huge weights just enough to clear a sheet of paperit is in this tradition that Sri Chinmoy's lifts should be seen. His real goal is to bring attention to the spiritual life , which is the real source of his power. For someone who is approaching 70 years of age, training every day with such ponderous weights to inspire humanity is the real world record.

  Frank Zane

  Spiritual, Real, Years

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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• I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

  Billy Sunday

  Heart, Years, Two

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

  Abigail Washburn

  Real, Band, Awesomeness

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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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