#old

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#because #bizarre #calls #definitely #everyone

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#decided #doing #hold #i #just

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it. ↗

— Ned Beatty

#good #grumpy #i #man #old

When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#benefit #break #everyone #frustrated #got

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#disinclined #distaste #lives #long #longevity

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#another #company #every #every time #i

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #collections #did #good #had

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. ↗

— Martha Beck

#any #because #blindly #built #denial

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget