Quotes about Olderness, page 9

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

Quote by Julio Iglesias about olderness

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and...

Quote by Chris Isaak about olderness

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about olderness

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, “Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon”. And you do.

Quote by Mick Jagger about olderness

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Quote by Billy Joel about olderness

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Quote by Billy Joel about olderness

Pretty much everyone's family was either chased out or ran away from some sort of horrible situation in the old country and made something of themselves in America.

Quote by Billy Joel about olderness

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Quote by Elton John about olderness

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about olderness

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Quote by Magic Johnson about olderness

I started as a singer, or, I should say, I first got the bug to be a performer when I was about 5 years old, singing in my grandfather's church.

Quote by Don Johnson about olderness

My father tried to get me to learn the guitar when I was about 10 years old. I just wasn't motivated.

Quote by Don Johnson about olderness

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Quote by Quincy Jones about olderness

The band was working 70 one-nighters in a row all through the south, doing 700 miles a night, with these guys that had been out there 30 years. I used to watch the old guys. I really respected their wisdom.

Quote by Quincy Jones about olderness

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Quote by Quincy Jones about olderness

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quote by Quincy Jones about olderness

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about olderness

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Quote by James Joyce about olderness

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Quote by James Joyce about olderness

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Quote by Franz Kafka about olderness