A Quote by Shirley Franklin

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

Shirley Franklin

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Anybody Five Foot Much Old Physical Sixty Something Threat Years

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Shirley Franklin
American - Politician
Born: May 10, 1945

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Sherman Alexie

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Colleen McCullough

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

George Burns

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

Ruth St. Denis

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

J. J. Abrams

Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

Jill Shalvis

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

Tobias Forge

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

MS Dhoni

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

Lewis Black

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

Lord Byron

I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

Imelda May

We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.