Seventy Quotes

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

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

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

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

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.

Being seventy is not a sin.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

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

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.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

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