100+ Seventies Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.39, Univ of California Press

topic: Lying, Years, Creating, Seventies

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

- Linda Grant

source: Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

topic: Depression, War, Decision, Seventies

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Thinking, Listening, Next Steps, Easy Going, Seventies

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

- Maurice White

topic: Music, Thinking, Fire, Rejuvenation, Seventies

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

- Robbie Keane

topic: Remember, Remember When, Seventies

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Time, Years, Climbing, Alps, Having Strength

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

- Tom Waits

topic: Fans, Coke, Dealer, Seventies

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

- Snoop Dogg

topic: Real, Nice, Player, Very Inspirational, Seventies

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.

- Paul Michael Glaser

topic: Thinking, Today, Asking, Seventies

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

- Mark Twain

topic: Years, Two, Rivers, Mississippi River, Seventies

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

- James Surowiecki

source: "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

topic: Country, Nineteen, Attention, Bribery, Seventies

I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.

- Tony Visconti

source: "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

topic: Money Well Spent, Seventies

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

- William J. Clinton

topic: War, Hate, Mean, Personal Attacks, Eighty

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

- Claudia Roth

topic: Queens, White, House, Modern Culture, Seventies

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

- Marc Maron

topic: Names, Special, Stills, Seventies

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

- Ron Paul

source: "End the Fed". Speech to the US House of Representatives, www.lewrockwell.com. February 05, 2009.

topic: Country, Money, Past, Easy Money, Economic Crisis

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

- Florence King

source: Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.51, Macmillan

topic: Men, Rocks, Feminist, Fathering, Seventies

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain's seventieth birthday speech at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, www.pbs.org. 1905.

topic: Birthday, Men, Years, Age Of 40, Seventies

Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ [as] crowds of Japanese silently streamed after us, stretching out their hands to touch Hawking's wheelchair. ... The crowds had streamed after Einstein [on Einstein's visit to Japan in 1922] as they streamed after Hawking seventy years later. ... They showed exquisite choice in their heroes. ... Somehow they understood that Einstein and Hawking were not just great scientists, but great human beings.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Jesus, Hero, Science, Tokyo, Wheelchairs

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Years, Eras, Truth Is, Great Year, Seventies

Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Blow, Cake, Granddaughter, First Lady, Seventies

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

- Teri Garr

topic: Seventies

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

- Felicity Jones

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Actors, Pressure, Young, Young Actors, Seventies

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

topic: Kids, Years, Play, Interesting Things, Seventies

The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

- Ken Rosenthal

topic: Running, Real, Home, Batting, Seventies

If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.

- Marilyn Sokol

topic: Procrastination, Dating, Magazines, Family Photo, Seventies

At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Golf, Play, Iron, High Risk, Seventies

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Men, Years, Garbage Cans, Life Span, Seventies

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Golf, Men, Two, Fours, Floundering

I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.

- Woody Harrelson

topic: Country, Hurt, Marijuana, Cannabis, Smoke Weed

Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.

- Eddie Murphy

source: "Fictional character: 'G'". "Holy Man", www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Summer, Winter, Autumn, Superficial Things, Rat Race

I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of seventy-five who are young. As long as I look after myself physically, mentally and emotionally, I'll stay young.

- Joan Collins

topic: Believe, Thinking, Long, Seventies

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Thinking, Years, People, Seventies

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Years, Silence, Meditation, Meditation Life, Quantity And Quality

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Order, Long, Age, Infirmity, Seventies

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.

- Denis Leary

source: "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

topic: Funny, Couple, Drinking, Seventies, Smoking Pot

Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the useful arts, had prepared the soil upon which this seed was to germinate and to flourish.

- Justus von Liebig

topic: Art, Medicine, Years, Physical Science, Pharmacy

While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

- Stephen Roche

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Cycling, Seventies

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

- Jeffrey Boam

topic: Philosophy, Reading, Class, Library Research, Archaeology

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne (2011). “The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Beautiful, Horse, Humorous, Chilled, Seventies

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

- Tom Ford

topic: Seventies

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

- Helen McCloy

topic: Past, Choices, Decision, Past Decisions, Seventies

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

- Will Self

source: Will Self (2012). “How the Dead Live”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Writing, Thinking, People, Typefaces, Seventies

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.