Old Words Quotes
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My old man is a man of few words.
— Scott Eastwood
He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
— Hanya Yanagihara
The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words. Ghosts don't take the interstate.
— Neil Gaiman
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
— Sherman Alexie
The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.
— Gerry Spence
Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.
— Sherman Alexie
How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
— Marty Rubin
Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
New words are always being born and old ones fading away.
— Patience Strong
Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn
— Munia Khan
You are never too old to be daring. Whether fifteen or ninety-five...believe your words have power. And use them.
— Natalie Lloyd
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
— Aristophanes
Imagination is an old soul.
— Richard Bach
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.
— Jack Kerouac
You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
— Paul Weller
You're never too old to make a fool of yourself
— Michael Perkins
Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world.
— Kathleen M. O'Connor
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
— Chinua Achebe
I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop.
— Cath Crowley
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
— George Clinton
No one is ever too old for stories." ~ Durban Chola
— E.M. Swift-Hook
Old words are reborn with new faces.
— Criss Jami
Will the words end, I askwhenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson
And I watch my words from a long way off.They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy. — Pablo Neruda
The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
— Frederick Buechner
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!
— Charles Dickens
Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
So all my best is dressing old words new.
— William Shakespeare
Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.
— Louise Erdrich
I like the old words better. They're like old friends.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
— William J. Clinton
Youthful exuberance is splendid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
— Ernesto Cardenal
Once we were young, now we are adult.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
— William Safire
There are certain words that should never be spoken, names that should never be used. Old things. Undead things.
— Michael Scott
Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.
— William Joyce
What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.
— Michelene Wandor
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
— Winston Churchill
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
— Harry Turtledove
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
— Munia Khan
Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them.
— Cornelia Funke
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
— Chinua Achebe
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
— Cesare Pavese
But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
— Samuel Beckett
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
— Anthony Marra
When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left.
— Claire North
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
— Elias Canetti
The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have the words in our pockets,obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
— Joseph Bottum
Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
— George Burns
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
— Winston Churchill
The churn of stale words in the heart againlove love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words — Samuel Beckett
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
— Michel De Montaigne
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
— Alan Brennert
though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.
— Tove Jansson
As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
— Alan Watts
Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
Young. Old. Just Words.
— George Burns
Don't moralize at me! I have no loveFor images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason
