“At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time. — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
