Old Words Or Quotes
Collection of top 44 famous quotes about Old Words Or
Old Words Or Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Old Words Or quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words. Ghosts don't take the interstate.
— Neil Gaiman
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
How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
— Marty Rubin
New words are always being born and old ones fading away.
— Patience Strong
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
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.
— Jack Kerouac
I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
— Paul Weller
But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
— Samuel Beckett
Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
— Anthony Marra
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
— Cesare Pavese
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
— George Eliot
Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them.
— Cornelia Funke
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
— Munia Khan
Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson
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
In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.
— Jimmy Hill
The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.
— Michelene Wandor
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.
— Eric Samuel Timm
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
— Alan Brennert
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
— William Safire
Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.
— Betty Hart
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
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov
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
Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
— George Burns
So all my best is dressing old words new.
— William Shakespeare
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
— Joseph Bottum
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
— Chinua Achebe
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
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
— Winston Churchill