Kirk Douglas Quotes

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

I would have liked the old days.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'

The good old days are now.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

We are tomorrow's past.