Sixty Quotes

439 quotes by 381 authors

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in… — William Eldridge Odom
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money. — Guru Nanak
You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some… — Upton Sinclair
Sow the seeds of life â€” humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up… — Frederick William Robertson
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were.… — Louis Menand
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel. — Jay Leno
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much?… — Brad Alan Lewis
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. — Herbert Hoover
That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at… — Guy Lafleur
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! — Aldous Huxley
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported… — Barney Frank
A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of… — Chalmers Johnson
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course,… — Umberto Eco
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in… — Denis Diderot
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the… — Paul McCartney
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those… — Yvon Chouinard

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