21st century Quote by Anne Stevenson

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want…

— William Maxwell

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

— Philip Levine

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

— Aimee Carter

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and…

— St. Jerome

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

— Peter Brook

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else…I will…

— Mark Twain

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's…

— Francesca Annis

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime,…

— Lord Dunsany