Old Days Quotes

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

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.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.