Fifty Quotes
Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
Andrea Mitchell
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Nelson A. Miles
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
David Wilkerson
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
John Linder
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Scott Cook
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
Bruce Sterling
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John Cheever
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
Ben Stein
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
George Axelrod
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
Bob Geldof
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
John Moody
Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
Brad Holland
When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Erik Satie
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
Maurice Ashley
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday