Eighty Years Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years…
— Sojourner Truth
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I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my…
— Noel Fielding
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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred,…
— Khushwant Singh
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When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story,…
— Jeff Bezos
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The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the…
— Yuval Ne'eman
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For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus.…
— Phil Robertson
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At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.
— Frank Warren
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no…
— Nikola Tesla
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I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.
— Sarah Kane
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In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each…
— Ronald Reagan
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one…
— Paul Claudel
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For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues…
— Pablo Casals
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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…
— Doris Lessing
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Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
— John Ralston Saul
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
— Bill Vaughan
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be…
— Voltaire
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.…
— Shirley Jackson
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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took…
— Steven Wright
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