70 Years Quotes

#1. Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. - Author: M. Emmet Walsh

#2. Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. - Author: Shane Claiborne

#3. Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn. - Author: Fredio Samples

#4. I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed? - Author: Dennis Prager

#5. The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. - Author: Robert Sternberg

#6. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns. - Author: Dana Gould

#7. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent. - Author: L. M. Boyd

#8. Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. - Author: James Roosevelt

#9. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back. - Author: Heather Headley

#10. No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content. - Author: Michael Faraday

#11. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is. - Author: Nick Clegg

#12. The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films. - Author: Marvin Ammori

#13. To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old. - Author: Peter Steele

#14. The B'nai B'rith is established by Jews in New York City as a Masonic Lodge. 70 years later this group will establish the notorious Anti-Defamation League, designed to promote any critics of Jewish supremacism or criminality, as, anti-Semitic. - Author: Anonymous

#15. The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe. - Author: George Will

#16. [Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House - Author: Ronald Reagan

#17. Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. - Author: Richard Leakey

#18. Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. - Author: Ted Nugent

#19. For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better. - Author: Robert Doisneau

#20. Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights - Author: Alija Izetbegovic

#21. A life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years. - Author: Charles Bukowski

#22. We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years. - Author: Gordon Brown

#23. For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. - Author: A.E. Samaan

#24. I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old. - Author: Ray Lewis

#25. The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia. - Author: Shinzo Abe

#26. It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. - Author: Steve Israel

#27. Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. - Author: Eric Idle

#28. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. - Author: Grace Napolitano

#29. Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year. - Author: Daniel Lieberman

#30. I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about. - Author: Alan Bleasdale

#31. We can't heal what we don't feel. We can't have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It's like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people don't live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present. - Author: Derek Rydall

#32. I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years. - Author: Jerry Perenchio

#33. America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. - Author: Eric Alterman

#34. Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. - Author: Thomas Frank

#35. It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish.
So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then
Just think, you'll be 70
In just those short years, numbering ten - Author: John Walter Bratton

#36. We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. - Author: Steve Ballmer

#37. Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out? - Author: Ravi Zacharias

#38. Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209 - Author: Steven Pinker

#39. We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? - Author: Jack Welch

#40. I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. - Author: Bob Balaban

#41. You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.' - Author: Marco Rubio

#42. Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations. - Author: Stephen Hawking

#43. I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70! - Author: Rose McGowan

#44. Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak. - Author: Jill Tarter

#45. Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write ... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me. - Author: Clive James

#46. Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years. - Author: Sarah Parcak

#47. I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory. - Author: Olivia DeJonge

#48. All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. - Author: Peter O'Toole

#49. The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times." - Author: Lawrence Lessig

#50. I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years. - Author: Fran Lebowitz

#51. I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash. - Author: Bernie Ecclestone

#52. We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. - Author: Grace Napolitano

#53. Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it. - Author: Eric Idle

#54. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die. - Author: Lee Trevino

#55. Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection. - Author: Billy Graham

#56. Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it. - Author: John Vanderslice

#57. For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. - Author: Peter Davison

#58. You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty! - Author: Iris Apfel

#59. I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert. - Author: Jeff Bezos

#60. When you're 84, a 70-year-old is still pretty young, - Author: Christian Horner

#61. I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed. - Author: Johnny Weir

#62. It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers. - Author: Richard Hell

#63. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago. - Author: Tommy Tune

#64. I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#65. When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish. - Author: Vivienne Westwood

#66. Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years. - Author: Elaine Morgan

#67. The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia. - Author: Boris Yeltsin

#68. School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count. - Author: Louis Sachar

#69. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc. - Author: Roger Moore

#70. To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older. - Author: Dave Franco

#71. I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means. - Author: Peyton Manning

#72. I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up. - Author: Fantasia Barrino

#73. It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing. - Author: Polly Bergen

#74. Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July. - Author: Shimon Peres

#75. The year 1839 brought further increase to the population; and before the beginning of 1840 there were 3,000 persons, with 500 houses and 70 shops, in Melbourne. In 1841, within five years of - Author: Alexander Sutherland

#76. When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. - Author: Dave Grohl

#77. From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side. - Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#78. Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago ... that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy. - Author: Louis C.K.

#79. I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed. - Author: Jesse Helms

#80. No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. - Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

#81. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States. - Author: Sanjay Gupta

#82. I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me. - Author: Stephen Toulouse

#83. At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#84. That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it. - Author: Jack Nicklaus

#85. The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years. - Author: Jeremy Grantham

#86. We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not. - Author: Martin Sorrell

#87. Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless. - Author: Victoria Moran

#88. We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum. - Author: Anne Roiphe

#89. I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. - Author: Dick Van Dyke

#90. My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?" - Author: Michelle Obama

#91. The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females. - Author: Nelly

#92. When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old. - Author: Bob Odenkirk

#93. After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.' - Author: Yoko Ono

#94. Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. - Author: Charles Stross

#95. 'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression. - Author: Frank Rich

#96. For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope. - Author: James Mercer

#97. I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord. - Author: Jerry Reed

#98. You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that. - Author: Rush Limbaugh

#99. When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game. - Author: Charlie Sifford

#100. It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it. - Author: Gloria Steinem