Seventy Years Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
— Cyril Connolly
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Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ…
— Freeman Dyson
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Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish…
— Justus von Liebig
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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 offer…
— Mark Twain
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Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without…
— Charles Bukowski
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I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
— Herbert Hoover
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I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk…
— Bowie Kuhn
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The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart…
— James Laver
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In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
— Roger Lowenstein
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A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day…
— Rajneesh
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I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a…
— Walt Whitman
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The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news…
— George Clooney
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All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin -…
— Rajneesh
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Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.
— Bob Hope
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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a…
— C.S. Lewis
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I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too…
— Robert Pattinson
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The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain…
— Mark Steyn
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
— Larry Niven
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying…
— Harold Brodkey
Who Wrote These Seventy Years Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 43 Seventy Years Quotes, led by these top contributors: