Quotes of: Forties Keyword

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

The Book Thief

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David Agus

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

William Osler

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Allen Tate

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

The Secret Life of Bees

The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.

A Summer In Europe

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Miranda Warning

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

An Object of Beauty

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers.

Learn Me Good

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

The Last Four Things

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

Telegraph Avenue

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

Pete Seeger

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Philip Treacy

You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say.

Terry Pratchett

You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and characters. You know who they are, but you wouldn't necessarily know their names.

Kelly Reilly

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Leon Blum

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Michael Dell

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

Meghan Daum

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

Robert B. Parker

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Manfred von Richthofen

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Martin Scorsese