Age Specific Mortality

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

    “Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

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