Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.
It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't know I'd do it ski jumping, but that's how it turned out.
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
There is no bigger stage than Old Trafford on the opening day of the season.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes.
And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
My old man worked for Pan American.
I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
