Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die. – Ian McShane
I don’t want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty’s always good enough for me. I don’t want to have to give anybody seventy; I don’t want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty. – James Dean
The cacao content is a wrapper’s most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of ‘cocoa mass.’ – Bill Buford
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won’t live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. – Anne Stevenson
For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that’s really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. – David Cassidy
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.” – The Bible Matthew 18:21-22
Despite the fact that he’s been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft’s work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations. – Ellen Datlow
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there’s so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned. – Peter Thiel
In general, I write for ages 12 and up – although I’ve received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction. – Marie Lu
Obama’s IRS is not the IRS I’ve ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen. – Michael Moriarty
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. – Maurice Chevalier
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. – Mike Rutherford
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. – George Eliot
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. – Michael Johns
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. – Norman Borlaug
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. – Johannes Tauler
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn’t really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. – Olga Korbut
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn’t have anything which is, live with. I didn’t have a friend so I didn’t have a coach anymore. – Olga Korbut
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. – Ralph Nader
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. – Phyllis McGinley
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can’t kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever’s going to happen, it’s all okay because there’s no way they can kill the star. – Terence Winter
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. – St. Jerome
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. – Sandra Lee