Over 60 Sayings

#1. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

Richard Louv

#2. My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

Ricardo Sanchez

#3. In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

Fabiola Gianotti

#4. 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.

Jerry Reed

#5. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.

John R. Lott Jr.

#6. Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

Jamie Oliver

#7. We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60 ... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

Carine Roitfeld

#8. Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Ron Kind

#9. When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

Wilson Greatbatch

#10. I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

Marat Safin

#11. I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

Gordon Smith

#12. In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#13. America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

David Frum

#14. I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.

David Mixner

#15. I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.

Daniel Wu

#16. Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

Shirin Ebadi

#17. The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

Lou Thesz

#18. Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

#19. The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

Jay Leno

#20. I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

Billy Graham

#21. In the U.S., the 400 richest people have as much as 185 million people, over 60 percent of the population. As absurd as that is, on a global scale, the richest 85 people have as much as 3.5 billion people, half of humanity!

Russell Brand

#22. I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

Sandy Duncan

#23. We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that ... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Bill Gates

#24. I have a daily message, 'Stimumail,' which I use to stimulate the mind and heart. I have the opportunity to touch over 60,000 people I have never met. I also use Twitter and Facebook.

Iyanla Vanzant

#25. We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of ... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

David Suzuki

#26. If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

Iris Apfel

#27. I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

Larry Fitzgerald

#28. The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

Ita Buttrose

#29. You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

Antonio Banderas

#30. I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.

Lynn Coady

#31. Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.

Lorrie Moore

#32. Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Ariel Gore

#33. The love she had felt for him in the past was still there within her, covered over now like a bandaged wound, not yet healed underneath and perhaps still easily reopened.

Lee Server

#34. The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

Adolf Hitler

#35. Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Kahlil Gibran

#36. If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

#37. (I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method ... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

Marsden Hartley