Fifty Quotes · Page 18

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

— Erik Satie

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child…

— Carol Bellamy

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And…

— Donald Trump

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

— Wilbur Wright

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

— David Byrne

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It…

— Kina Grannis

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that…

— Anonymous

In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of…

— John C. Calhoun

More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.…

— Katherine Paterson

Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost,…

— Kelley Armstrong

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful…

— Marcus Garvey

You know, Longmire and all those other great (whodunit) series, I would love to one of those. We just haven't found the…

— Drew Waters

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it…

— Adam Rapp

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You…

— Mark Twain

I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it,…

— Glenn Beck

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably…

— Jane Austen

I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A…

— Ronald Reagan

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not…

— C.P. Snow

I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour…

— Thomas A. Edison

I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this…

— Megan McCafferty

For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods…

— Swami Vivekananda

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

— Barbara Cartland

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

— Red Cloud

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

— Max Lerner

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

— A. A. Milne

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on…

— Carl Schurz

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

— Miles Davis

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he…

— Raymond Carver

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

— Albert Einstein

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

— Malala Yousafzai

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I…

— Marie Dressler

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in…

— Al McGuire

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

— Gordon Bell

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

— Josh Billings

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

— Robert Ballard