Sixty Quotes - Page 21

• If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Ordinary, Stories

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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• I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Birthday, Years, Born

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• I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.

  Wendy Liebman

  Running, Ice Cream, Truck

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Years, Two, America

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

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• I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Hell, Crossroads

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• Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

  Abraham Foxman

  Memories, War, Reality

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• I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Baseball, Games

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• In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

  John Connally

  Strong, Political, Politics

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• What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

  Mark McGwire

  Thank You, Sports, Home

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

  Lars Ulrich

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

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• If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

  Aaron Copland

  Play, Want, Knows

  "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

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• It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

  H. G. Wells

  Russia, Government, Order

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• Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.

  P. D. James

  Eye, Mass Extinction, Light

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.24, Vintage

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• Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

  Rose Byrne

  Looks, Want, Ridiculous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Thinking, People, Groups

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• In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Couple, Twenties

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• With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Pairs, Hundred, Professors

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 5: "Harvard Years", p. 91, 1991.

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Past, Years, Memorial

  "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

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• I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Years, Eight

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

  Dennis Miller

  Teacher, Years, Trying

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.14, Main Street Books

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• A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

  Steve Winwood

  Change, Music, Thinking

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