Age Specific Mortality

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

    “Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
    But it seems like the sea’s return
    To the ancient lands where it left the shells
    Before the age of the fern....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)