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“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.”

“When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.”

Years Age America Left Flower Bird Aging Best Times North America

Author:Robert Bateman

“The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.”

Way Book Character Age America Enjoy Creative Share Reader Family And Friends Festivals Malls Creative Work

Author:Laura Bush

“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”

“Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.”

Littles Age America Term Modern Tradition Machines Musical Technique Rhythm Impulse Composer Stimulus Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”

Made Moments Age America Fall Novel Bears Transformation Jazz Excellence Edges Manifest Decline Harbinger Jazz Age

Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

“In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.”

Men Age America Generations Baby Citizens Empty Seven Organs Senior Donors Boomers Senior Citizen Baby Boomer Pepsi Organ Donor

Author:Bill Cosby

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.”

“Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.”

“The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.”

Mean Government Age America Class Ignorance Committed Debt Features Hypocrisy Strings Citizenry

Author:Mark Steyn

“By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.”

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.”

Two Facts Age America Black Thirty Black Women Millionaire

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.”

May Doe Age Christian America Lost Atheism Return Deserve Positive Atheism Golden Golden Age

Author:Mark Noll

“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.”

Years Believe Has Beens Home Age America Cities Successful Civilization Sorry Decades Apartment Great Cities

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“"Old" is deﬁnitely not cool in America. Never has been.”

Has Beens Age America Aging

Author:Tom Peters

“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Age America Old Age Getting Old Somewhere Else

Book:Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

Source: Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

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