Pastoral Resources

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.