Age Specific Mortality

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

    “Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

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