#forty

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. ↗

— Basil Hume

#christ #days #desert #die #died

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. ↗

— Donald Justice

#close #coming #doors #forty #learn

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anything #feel #fifty #five #forty

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. ↗

— William Wyler

#forty #getting #horse #i #lie

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

— Paul Hoffman

#children #damage #damaged #done #ever

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#build #democracy #forty #forty years #generations