"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."

Age, Family, Character, Opinion

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"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

George W. Bush, American President

Age,

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Age, Care, Importance

"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

Age, Error, Old

"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician

Age, May

"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

Age, People, Order, Promise

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

Age, People, Middleage

"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

Michael Caine, English Actor

Age, Money, Old

"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Age, Change, Children, Completion

"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Aging, Youth, Gender, Desire

Explore more quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

Joy

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

Gender

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."

Love

"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."

Love

"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."

Government

"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."

Authority

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Soul

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners."

Time

"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."

Man

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

Being