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)

“At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
—A.J. (Arthur James)