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Sweetheart, even when you're fifty years old and I'm pushing ninety, I'll still worry about you. You're my daughter and I love you. — Lolita Lopez

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. — Thomas Jefferson

She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years. — Stuart Woods

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together. — Terence McKenna

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand. — Bryan Stevenson

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi

England has enjoyed fifty years of peace. This is the Tudors' covenant; peace is what they offer. — Hilary Mantel

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. — David Mermin

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. — Allan Gurganus

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism. — Walter Darby Bannard

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. — Harry Caray

One touch of His (God's) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you'd be. — Joel Osteen

One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season. — William Wordsworth

Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty. — Emily St. John Mandel

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled ... — Ernest Hemingway,

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks. — Bob Hope

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."
"Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago ... — Thomas Hoving

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. — Guy Pearce

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. — Peter Drucker

Since the Antarctic palms of the Eocene, some fifty million years ago. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Even quilters have cliques! I can't stop picturing Regina George, fifty years later, instructing her minions that 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink. — Rachel Bertsche

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion. — R.C. Sproul

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

At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. — Brooks Robinson

I stop wasting time on tears.
I live another fifty years.
It's not enough! — Lin-Manuel Miranda

It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago. — J.K. Rowling

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it. — Harry Seidler

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago. — Julius Schwartz

After fifty-four years, I've learned we share the same opinion. Hers. — Allison Morgan

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fifty years and people are still talking about who did it. — Elizabeth Horton-Newton

By the way, in that same session an ad popped up that said, "Tired of masturbating?" I thought, "Nope. Try me again in about one-hundred-fifty years. — Adam Carolla

Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine. — Hector Berlioz

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? — Walter Scott

within the next fifty years or so "all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me. — Ahmet Ertegun

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years. — Chuck Klosterman

You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust. — Jessica Fortunato

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. — Jerome K. Jerome

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. — Hedy Lamarr

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty. — Muhammad Ali

When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes. — Jennifer E. Smith

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie. — Kevin Costner

Picasso was onto this truth fifty years ago when he commented, "Computers are useless - they only give31 you answers. — Warren Berger

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. — Joseph Stalin

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble. — P.G. Wodehouse

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old — Maxine Kumin

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures. — Pipilotti Rist

I'm fifty years ahead of my time, — Joseph Pilates

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Who are you, Nature?
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet. — Voltaire

Modern racetracks were consigned to industrial wastelands. One hundred and fifty years ago, Saratoga decided to make it the centerpiece of their town. — Natalie Keller Reinert

Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity. — Jim Harrison

She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river. — Lindsay Marie Miller

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. — Mario Cuomo

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. — Mark Twain

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. — Ian Stewart

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. — Jean Giraudoux

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — Warren Buffett

warning bell on the Shoals for fifty years.' He grinned at my expression. — T.D. Griggs

Number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago, — Elizabeth Kolbert

Carl envisioned a show that would be timeless. He wanted it to be fresh to audiences fifty years down the line. — Dick Van Dyke

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. — John R. Platt

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. — Nelson A. Miles

Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile. — Frederick Maurice

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. — Arthur Kornberg

In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people — Tip O'Neill

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults. — Confucius

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. — Benjamin Cardozo

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like. — Rob Paulsen

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." — Billy Graham

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sweetheart, I'll be a Marine 'til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now. — Dee Tenorio

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart." — Martin Niemoller

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping. — John Grisham

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years. — Jim Dodge

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future. — Gordon Brown

Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon - so like a corkscrew now - was flung — Herman Melville

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx. — Marilynne Robinson

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. — Susan B. Anthony

Writing is fifty years behind painting. — Brion Gysin

What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago. — Kurt Vonnegut

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. — Fletcher Knebel