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" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Albert Einstein

" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "

" Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. "

" I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. "

" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. "

Washington Irving

" Youth is wasted on the young. "

George Bernard Shaw

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "

" In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. "

" I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. "

" The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. "

Rosalyn S. Yalow

" It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. "

" Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds. "

" When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. "

" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "

Abraham Lincoln

" From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. "

" I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves. "

" You should never reveal your true age. "

" That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember. "

" It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. "

" The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12. "

" If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. "

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

" Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. "

" We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. "

Charles H. Townes

" If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. "

Katherine Jenkins

" If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? "

Robert Gould Shaw

" I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important. "