Seventy Quotes:
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl Jung
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.
Rodney Dangerfield
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn’t, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I’d been ready to go, you know.
Olga Korbut
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn’t really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
Olga Korbut
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don’t like to see a gymnastics like that. I don’t know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn’t have anything which is, live with. I didn’t have a friend so I didn’t have a coach anymore.
Olga Korbut
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Larry Niven
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
Sandra Lee
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Maurice Chevalier
If you’re a waiter and you’re waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
Kelly Ripa
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die.
Ian McShane
The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.
Chuck Schumer
Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.
John Kani
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Johannes Tauler
During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can’t kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever’s going to happen, it’s all okay because there’s no way they can kill the star.
Terence Winter
I remember Pavarotti telling me, ‘Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.’ But I’ve been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
Neil Sedaka
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation’s leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
Evan Osnos
If you’re 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is ‘age appropriate’? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what’s middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
Loretta Swit