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" Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. "

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" I shall not grow conservative with age. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. "

Samantha Stosur

" When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, 'Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.' From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I'm a high-strung, hyperactive guy. "

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

" The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. "

" 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

" Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. "

" Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. "

" I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. "

" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. "

" Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. "

" I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. "

" How young can you die of old age? "

" Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy. "

" For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating. "

" Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. "

Christopher Lasch

" Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. "

E. Joseph Cossman

" The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. "

" There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. "

Charlie Kaufman

" I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. "

" Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. "

" It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now. "

" We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. "

" You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age. "

" I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. "

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished. "