The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about. S. Jay Olshansky ageassociatedecline share on social
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 agecarrycentury Change image and share on social
Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse. Iris Apfel ageatrophyball share on social
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West. Hooman Majd agebeareducate Change image and share on social
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin. Roger Ebert advanceagefall Change image and share on social
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age. Jean-Claude Van Damme ageaudiencehave Change image and share on social
Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. Jean Piaget agechildconstitute share on social
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. Shimon Peres abundanceagecreate share on social
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. Shimon Peres 21stadditionage share on social
At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her. John Searles agebrowngurley Change image and share on social