Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!
I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.