Quotes About Being Sixty

#1. Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

Maggie Kuhn

#2. Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years-old and never trying.

Troy Gathers

#3. I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

Henry Rollins

#4. There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

Steve Yzerman

#5. In fact, if you're not prepared to die when you're almost sixty, then I would say you've been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities as a grown-up human being.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

Will Rogers

#7. The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions

Naomi Oreskes

#8. Single moment in a string of infinite moments ... and that they too shall pass.

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

Justin Cronin

#10. At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

Camille Pissarro

#11. One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the floor, watching me with his beady little crab eyes. I think he wanted to get in bed with me.

Jennifer Esposito

#12. Can one truly be passionate about something if they are not committed to it?

Monica Johnson

#13. Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

Gunther Schuller

#14. seems that men are at their best between sixty and seventy, the reason being that in such occupations a wide experience of other men is essential.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

Selenis Leyva

#16. Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Confucius

#17. On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Anthony Trollope

#18. She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now. Yes, she was balanced, as she had gotten into the habit of congratulating herself for being. But, she saw, she was balanced on a very narrow perch.

Jane Smiley

#19. Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

Kerr Cuhulain

#20. How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#21. Are you searching for your soul?
Then come out of your own prison.

Rumi

#22. I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

Mike Myers

#23. The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.

Cassandra Clare

#24. For someone who's had a life like mine, living beyond sixty is just being stubborn.

Daniel Galera

#25. I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

Alana Stewart

#26. Today is my grandfather's birthday."
"How old is he?"
"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

Charles M. Schulz

#27. In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Ellen Glasgow

#28. I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Elizabeth Janeway

#29. But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

Margaret Atwood

#30. We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide.

David Mitchell

#31. Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens.

Tracey Bond

#32. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter

#33. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#34. There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.

Joshua Michael Stern