Old Time Quotes - Page 2

• A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.

  Luis Marden

  Hands, Iron, Feet

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• There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

  Martin Scorsese

  Directors, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

  Buster Keaton

  Window, Persons, Swear

  "Limelight", 1952.

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• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, Squares, Scared

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• I cannot say, and I will not say
  That he is dead. He is just away.
  With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
  He has wandered into an unknown land
  And left us dreaming how very fair
  It needs must be, since he lingers there.
  And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn
  For an old-time step, and the glad return,
  Think of him faring on, as dear
  In the love of There as the love of Here.
  Think of him still as the same. I say,
  He is not dead - he is just away.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Death, Dream, Husband

  James Whitcomb Riley (1982). “The Best of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.107, Indiana University Press

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• When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

  Henry Twells

  Time, Children, Men

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• There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pockets, Amber, Littles

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  Samuel Butler

  Circles, Squares, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Southern, Radio

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

  Tony Campolo

  Support, Generations, Righteousness

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Quite like old times,' the room says.

  Jean Rhys

  Rooms

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• To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

  Nora Roberts

  Rose, Lockers, Towels

  Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.175, Penguin

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• O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.702, Ageless Reads

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• There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

  Booth Tarkington

  Gone

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.57, Booklassic

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• How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

  Herman Melville

  Morning, Couple, Lying

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.58, Velvet Element Books

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• There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Cutting

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil”, p.23, George Eliot

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• Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Home, Evil, Sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe:”, p.99, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

  Patrick Ness

  Dog, People, Problem

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

  Earle Birney

  Time, Bears, Cold

  Earle Birney (2014). “The Essential Earle Birney”, p.52, The Porcupine's Quill

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Worst

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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