Fifty Quotes

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.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

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.

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.

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

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.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

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.

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.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

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.

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.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.