Seventy

Famous quotes containing the word seventy:

    At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    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.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)