Seventy Years

Famous quotes containing the words seventy years, seventy and/or years:

    “Seventy years have I lived
    No ragged beggar man,
    Seventy years have I lived,
    Seventy years man and boy,
    And never have I danced for joy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Spring still makes spring in the mind,
    When sixty years are told;
    Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
    And we are never old.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)