Age Specific Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:

    “From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    “Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)