Pastoral Resources

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.