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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George F. Burns

Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?

Paul Mccartney

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Bob Eastwood

The exit polls are great. Sixty percent of the audience were males. It was 50 percent over-25 and 50 percent under-25. We're going to hang around for a while. I think we certainly have a shot at $200 million.

Dan Fellman

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

Sixty-five bodies have been identified, and a 66th body is still in the rubble.

Janusz Skulich

When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a.

Harold Nicolson

Riley has been consistent for us all year. He didn't have his greatest fastball, but he had excellent off-speed stuff that got him out of jams. Sixty percent of his pitches were strikes, and that always helps.

Don English

The chances are fifty-sixty.

Matti Nykänen

I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

Aretha Franklin

I love a live church. Sixty-two years old -- this gives me life.

Arthur Young

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Clive Bell

The spirit and letter of the law should be equal, and this is not even close. Sixty-seven thousand does not equal 2,000. I am an American; I deserve free and fair elections.

Thomas Martin

Whether we're down a goal, or up a goal or down two goals, we still believe in ourselves. Sixty minutes of hockey is what we need to play no matter what situation we're in.

Vicky Sunohara

Sixty-one shots later, here we are. Our effort was definitely good. But we're going to have play well on Saturday, because they're good. They're well-coached, they're disciplined, and we're going to have to move the ball. It's going to be a battle.

Jim Berkman

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John Mccarthy

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.

Wendy Liebman

Sixty-five acres is a lot of land, and an expensive piece of land.

Will Beaton

One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all.

Douglas Hofstadter

We need to proceed very delicately. Sixty days is not a long time to make crucial decisions like the decisions being made here today.

Martin Eggleston

Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes.

Azzam Alwash

Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

Roger Maris

I would defy anybody – anybody in this chamber, anybody in Massachusetts – to say that the apocalypse has come, yet some have predicted it. Sixty-five-hundred married couples later, the sun still shines in Massachusetts. My coffee does not have curdled milk.

Jarrett Barrios

There about sixty feet long and we'll have ramps on both ramps on both ends. There will be a fence separating traffic from the pedestrians.

Larry Lindley

Sixty-three percent of the land in the U.P. is open to the public through state, federal or managed forests. We're talking about an infinitesimal portion of the land with this sale.

Roger Trudeau

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whatever the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!

Lars Ulrich

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

Roger Maris

Now I'm about a hundred and sixty . Actually 160 should be a good weight for me.

Walt Bayes

Sixty-five percent of the country is in danger of landslides, ... The risk caused by this accumulation of water is worrying.

Tony Saca

Sixty-nine miles an hour is very, very fast when you're dealing with a 10-mile-an-hour restriction.

Mark Rosenker

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Donald Culross Peattie

It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the products of our parents. Sixty percent of our body is hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atoms in us go back to the fireball fourteen billion years ago. We have been around a long time, and it has been a great birthing process to bring us forward.

Matthew Fox

Sixty-four years with the same dude? I don't think so, ... Three years and you're out. I said it'd be a good time, not a long time.

Tanya Tucker

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.

Billy Carter

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Mark Twain

Earnings actually have been very good in the second quarter. Sixty percent of the companies reporting so far have been upside surprises. That's not quite as aggressive at this point as the first quarter reports were, but still a very good performance in a weak quarter.

Ronald Hill

Sixty per cent seems like a high threshold. But if it requires sixty per cent provincially, I'm not sure what the rationale is to say that if you can get it passing at sixty per cent of the districts with a threshold of fifty per cent plus one, there just doesn't seem to be a rationale that carries through. It may be somewhat confusing to the electorate.

Leonard Russell

91 percent of crude is offline as we speak. Sixty-one percent of the (natural) gas is offline, and it's going to get worse.

David Dismukes

When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

Harry Belafonte

Sixty percent of all adoption agencies in the US take applications from lesbians and gays. The reality on the ground is moving ahead of the policy debate.

Adam Pertman

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Rick Lelacheur

We think of the typical eighth grader as young and immature. Sixty days later they're high school freshmen. Is it reasonable to assume they've suddenly gained all the maturity and experience to function competently at a comprehensive high school?

Steve Mulvenon

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Marie Dressler

Sixty-four teams start [NCAA tournament] and they're whittled down to just one. Kind of reminds me of what we've done with our allies.

Bill Richardson

You think back through history, and 40 was an old age at one time. You didn't live past 40. Sixty — forget it. Here I am at 80, and I feel alert and energetic. Why would I retire?

Mort Walker

I've been at it sixty years.

Arthur Meyers

When you consider the number of passengers on board these ships that run into the millions, cruising has never been safer than it is right now. Sixty percent of our business is cruise business.

David Reid

China Black Oil Well Services moved a work-over rig on the leasehold and began working today. We hope to have several more wells producing oil in commercial quantities in the next sixty (60) days.

Charles Crawford

I see a trend. Our kids are getting into trouble and going to jail. Sixty-five percent of the county budget goes to jail and rehab, and that's fine, but only 16 percent of our budget goes to prevention programs.

Yolanda Montemayor

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Elizabeth Janeway

It was less than 15 students that were there. The revocation took place because they just didn't have the students. Sixty-five was the minimum, and there was no way they were going to get to 65 students.

Jack Moyer

Sixty days after Jan. 20, we should have all the equipment we ordered.

Phil Baker

Sixty percent of the funds are from grassroots fundraising like the Bike-a-thon. We have 14,000 people in our database who have donated something, and we call and ask them to give again. They usually do.

Carl Kurz

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Jean Paul Getty

Unfortunately we have more tragic information. Sixty people have died. This is information from all the rescue services, fire, police and medical services.

Andrzej Fiema

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

J. Paul Getty

Yeah, our orders were to shoot at enemy planes in a friendly manner, whatever the heck that meant. Sixty years later, I still don't know what the hell that means.

Larry Nelson

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Ambrose Bierce

[Sixty years ago tomorrow, the crew of the Enola Gay watched in awe as their payload detonated over the city of Hiroshima.] As the bomb exploded, we saw the entire city disappear, ... I wrote in my log, 'My God, what have we done?'

Robert Lewis

She's the toughest kid on the team. She's only about sixty pounds, but she'll go up against anybody. She's our Mighty Mouse.

Tom Husser

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Arnold Bennett

This is a statewide program offered by the CHP. We have had a good response. The purpose of the program is to reduce fatal accidents, which is the leading cause of deaths for people between 16 and 20. Sixty-five percent of the passengers killed in traffic accidents are riding with young drivers.

Jenna Berry

Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.

Harold Mcmillan

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Earl Weaver

Sixty mile-an-hour winds, over five hours, will raise seas from dead calm to about 19 feet.

Walt Drag

We've done 12 outings starting Nov. 12, 2005. Sixty-four people total have gone on the outings. Our largest outing so far had nine people.

Keith Hammer

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

Ernie Banks

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

Ernie Banks

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr

Sixty percent of all interpreters are not proficient in sign language, in the state of Idaho. I would believe that. I've met some interpreters that are pretty worse off.

Emily Pennie