Seventy Quotes

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.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.