Seventy Quotes

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

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.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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