Pastoral Resources

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.