Alive Quote by Phyllis McGinley

Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

— John Kani

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

— Judith Martin

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Oh, to be seventy again!

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Mark Twain

“Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments…

— Richard Rohr

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

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

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an…

— Mark Twain

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

— Anonymous

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