Fifty Years Quotes

212 quotes by 196 authors

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. — Red Cloud
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. — Susan B. Anthony
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center… — Corrie Ten Boom
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. — John R. Platt
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. — Thomas Jefferson
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day… — Tony Robbins
America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the… — Bernard Baruch
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. — Raquel Welch
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they… — Mark Twain
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I… — Bruce Sterling
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch… — Charles Lindbergh
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.… — Mark Twain
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have… — Red Grange
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into… — Gordon Brown

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