Seventy Weeks

Famous quotes containing the words seventy and/or weeks:

    “For the first time I’m content to see
    What poor mortar and bricks
    I have to build with, knowing that I can
    Never in seventy years be more a man
    Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Since ... six weeks ago, there has been no day in which I have not had letters and visits on the subject of my nomination for the Presidency.... I say very little. I have in no instance encouraged any one to work to that end.... I have said the whole talk about me is on the score of availability. Let availability do the work then.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)