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

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" If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. "

" Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah. "

Jennifer Damiano

" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" I don't understand anything about America's culture. "

" The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? "

" For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. "

" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "

" I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it. "

" My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? "

" Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. "

" I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70. "

" Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. "

" I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense. "

" 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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. "

" When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me. "

" Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. "

" The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. "

" Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. "

" The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. "

" Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. "

" Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. "

" A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "

" The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. "

" I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. "

" If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! "

" A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" At my age flowers scare me. "

" Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. "

Frederick Jackson Turner