Famous quotes containing the words sixty years, sixty and/or years:
“Sixty years ago they smiled
At lover, husband, first-born child.
Smiles are for youth. For old age come
Deaths terror and delirium.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“Every milestone of a firstborn is scrutinized, photographed, recorded, replayed, and retold by doting parents to admiring relatives and disinterested friends. . . . While subsequent children will strive to keep pace with siblings a few years their senior, the firstborn will always have a seemingly Herculean task of emulating his adult parents.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
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