Age of Discovery/new Trade Routes 1542-1565

Famous quotes containing the words age of, age, discovery, trade and/or routes:

    The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
    Sigmund Z. Engel (b. 1869)

    The New Age? It’s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
    James Randi (b. 1928)

    The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother—both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child’s history is never finished.
    Terri Apter (20th century)