Sixty Years

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

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

    “The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)