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My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. -- Maurice Sendak
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. -- Christopher Columbus
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. -- Henry David Thoreau
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. -- Lucinda Williams
I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. -- Julian Fellowes
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. -- Carter Burwell
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. -- Ambrose Bierce
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds -- Saadi
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds. -- Saadi
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. -- Madchen Amick
I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. -- Madchen Amick
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting. -- Woody Allen
We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new. -- Mao Zedong
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. -- Barbara Tuchman
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. -- Jared Diamond
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. -- Jared Diamond
It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. -- Richard Parks Bland
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. -- Charles Darwin
Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past. -- Jurgen Moltmann
Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past. -- Jurgen Moltmann
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland. -- Harry Browne
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered. -- Bayard Taylor
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east. -- Vera Nazarian
Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. -- Susan Vreeland
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. -- Charles Kendall Adams
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods. -- John Dewey
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her Old World moulds aside she threw And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. -- James Russell Lowell
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others. -- Jonathan Franzen
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. -- Theodor Mommsen
It's a funny old world. -- Margaret Thatcher
My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back. -- Dalton McGuinty
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. -- Gina Bellman
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm. -- Sonam Kapoor
The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage. -- Raymond Kwok
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. -- Billy Sunday
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue. -- Esha Gupta
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere. -- Rachel Cusk
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. -- Ayad Akhtar
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. -- Michael K. Powell
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. -- John Raleigh Mott
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. -- Cameron Sinclair
There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body. -- Douglas Fairbanks
The world is a gawking four-year-old. -- Adrian Barnes
The threat of world's end is the old threat. -- Denise Levertov
I have come too late into a world too old. -- Alfred de Musset
When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms. -- Dogen
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. -- Jeremy Irvine
You can't use an old map to explore a new world. -- Albert Einstein
Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old. -- Dick Gregory
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new. -- Neil Young
Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up. -- Russell Simmons
Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world. -- Wes Anderson
A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl -- Eoin Colfer
I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do. -- Sam the Sham
I always say I was born too late in the world, too old. -- Olivier Martinez
Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself. -- John Updike
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it. -- George Eliot
Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope. -- Miguel Serrano
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. -- George Canning
This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down. -- Neil Young
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! -- Matsuo Basho
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. -- Lin Yutang
I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old. -- Erik Satie
What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating. -- Marianne Williamson
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me? -- Lillie Langtry
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world. -- Laura Dekker
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die... -- Sara Teasdale
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. -- Allison Pearson
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. -- W. C. Fields
I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. -- Rick Mercer
In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits. -- Hannes Holm
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. -- Michael Moore
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. -- Ida Tarbell
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. -- Bruce Barton
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold? -- Frederick William Faber
I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
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Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. -- Ouida
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. -- Richard Flanagan
It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now. -- Robert Palmer
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. -- Robert Owen
Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick -- Srishti
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. -- Zicheng Hong
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. -- Ted Hughes
the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. -- Italo Calvino
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. -- Dan Rather
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up. -- Marshall McLuhan
I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter) -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. -- Franklin P. Jones
The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed. -- Mardy Grothe
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters -- Antonio Gramsci
The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. -- Steve Jobs
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? -- John Updike
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. -- Walter Becker
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. -- Miguel de Cervantes
If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old. -- Bai Juyi
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world~? -- Patricia MacLachlan
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. -- D. H. Lawrence
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. -- Booth Tarkington
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. -- Terri Windling
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning. -- Glenn Frey
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. -- Richard Dawkins
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. -- Philip Caputo
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation -- Dalai Lama
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. -- Samuel Johnson

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