There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.