Sixty Years

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

    “Sixty years ago they smiled
    At lover, husband, first-born child.
    Smiles are for youth. For old age come
    Death’s terror and delirium.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs.”
    —Emily Carr (1871–1945)

    “After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.”
    —Primo Levi (1919–1987)