Becoming Quote by Lord Dunsany

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and…

— St. Jerome

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

— Mark Twain

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want…

— William Maxwell

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

— Philip Levine

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

— Kirk Douglas

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We've all experienced that feeling of realizing we're no longer 16. But in some ways, that 16-year-old is forever.

— Celine Song

All I can say is that I wont be alive after eighteen or seventeen even.

— Jasmine Laura

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

— Anne Stevenson

I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just…

— Nola Ochs

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age,

— Evel Knievel

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go…

— Cilla Black