Seventy Quotes

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

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.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.