Sixty Quotes

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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to… — Walt Disney
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf… — Robert Toombs
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if… — William Osler
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. — Tim Heidecker
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. — Jerry Garcia
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going… — J. Paul Getty
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy… — Baltasar Gracian
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking… — Alice Cooper
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed… — Will Durant
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. — Bob Dylan
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the… — Marianne Faithfull
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for… — Christopher Hitchens
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma… — Erica Jong

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