#forty

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#down #forty #heights #look #pyramids

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. ↗

— Charles Evers

#alone #forty #got #mule #never

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#forty years #hear #his #later #offstage

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. ↗

— Billie Burke

#forty #her #make #make up #mind

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

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#convictions #eighteen #forty-five #hide #hills

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#built #church #fifty #forty #fully

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! ↗

— Betty Friedan

#equal #forty-five #hard #hepburn #i

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#away #boyfriend #drive #forty #i