Sixty Years

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

    “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)

    “At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)