Fifty Years

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

    ... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “... Keep cold, young orchard. Good-by and keep cold.
    Dread fifty above more than fifty below.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of fifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)