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" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "

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" In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. "

" The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' "

" I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. "

" I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. "

" We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. "

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower. "

" The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income. "

" New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. "

" I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it. "

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "

" By Time and Age full many things are taught. "

" The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. "

William Wordsworth

" As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? "

" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "

" As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher. "

" I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. "

" The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. "

Randall Jarrell

" I'm not afraid of aging. "

" In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. "

" Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age. "

Russell M. Nelson

" At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. "

" Love has no age, no limit; and no death. "

John Galsworthy

" Youth is wasted on the young. "

George Bernard Shaw

" As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' "

Marshall McLuhan

" I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged. "

" Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. "

Carol Vorderman