Sixty Years

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

    Every sixty years, the omens come fill circle.
    Chinese proverb.

    Thatcher: Now tell me honestly, my boy. Don’t you think it’s rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this Inquirer that’s costing you a million dollars a year?
    Charles Foster Kane: You’re right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in sixty years.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    It seemed the mockery of hell to fold
    The rottenness of eighty years in gold.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)