Seventy Years

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

    “Seventy years have I lived
    No ragged beggar man,
    Seventy years have I lived,
    Seventy years man and boy,
    And never have I danced for joy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation’s condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)