Pastoral Resources

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.