Sixty Quotes

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

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

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

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

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.