Pastoral Resources

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.