Seventies Quotes - Page 19

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Interesting, Age, Passionate

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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

  Mark Twain

  Risk, Age, Too Much

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Oh, to be seventy again!

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.

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• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Art, Children

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

  Richard DeVos

  Perseverance, Determination, Adversity

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• Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

  David Satcher

  Marijuana, Years, Two

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• Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

  George Habash

  Rivers, East, Jordan

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• My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Disease, Asthma

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.245

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• You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.

  Eddie Arcaro

  Success, Running, Horse

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

  William Maxwell

  Past, Views, Curiosity

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage

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• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

  George Vaillant

  Years, Twenties, Dollars

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Jeans, Shoes

  "Thrown Under the Omnibus". Book by PJ O'Rourke, October 21, 2015.

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• When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

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• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  Harold Robbins

  Sex, Age, Fifteen

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• It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

  John Dos Passos

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1969). “One man's initiation: 1917: a novel”

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Determination, Time, Jobs

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• I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

  Diana Nyad

  Country, Book, Athlete

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• In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

  Tobin Bell

  New York, Names, Roles

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• My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Mother, Scarves, Hundred

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• I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Creating, Giving

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Age

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• The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Land, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.12, Best Books on

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