Seventy Quotes

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.