Merle Haggard Quotes

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.

I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.

Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can't fight that, I have to adapt and change.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

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!

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Things have changed so much. People walked away from a simple life we had in the '20s and '30s, and I am glad that I am able to touch that period in our lives with the shows that I do and with the music that I do.

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

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

I'm old-fashioned.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

When it comes to our cultural values, I would love to hold on to the past because Nokia had some of the best spirit ever. Having grown up in the company, I loved it for the value and culture, which matched my own.

It's hard for me to get to grips with how much players have changed since I retired. There are too many annoying habits; the kids are getting rich earlier and earlier, which brings a weird sense of entitlement.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.