Enid Bagnold Quotes

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I find I'm an old soul.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.