Old World Quotes

It's a funny old world.
Margaret Thatcher

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

Sun, Old, Light

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
Maurice Sendak

Parents, Old, Ignorant

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

Family, Politics, Business

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Saadi

Old, Here, Found

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

Power, Old, Secret

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

Give, Old, Return

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
Carter Burwell

Old, Rather, Fact

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
Lucinda Williams

Love, Great, Old

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

Heart, Fire, Old

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

Different, Old, Place

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

War, Country, Made

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
Dalton McGuinty

Challenge, Old, Coming

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

Wise, True, May

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
El Lissitzky

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