Well, here's 20 reasons, why you're never too old to accomplish your dreams...
- At age 40, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, more than anyone had ever hit.
- At age 41, Christopher Columbus landed in the New World.
- At age 44, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
- At age 49, Mario Puzo published, The Godfather.
- At age 52, Ludwig Van Beethovan composed the Ninth Symphony.
- At age 53, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Britain--the first woman to hold that office. Yeah, Margaret!
- At age 55, Alex Haley published Roots.
- At age 57, Annie Peck climbed Mount Huascaran in the Andes. She was the first person to reach the top.
- At age 59, Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
- At age 63, Francis Galton revealed to the world that no two people have the same fingerprints and revolutionized crime fighting in the process.
- At age 64, John Pierpont Morgan formed U.S. Steel, the world's first billion dollar corporation.
- At age 65, Laura Ingalls published Little House In the Big Woods, the first story in the popular "Little House on the Prairie," series.
- At age 68, Clifford Batt swam the English Channel.
- At age 69, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize.
- At age 78, Grandma Moses began taking painting seriously. Soon afterward, her career took off.
- At age 79, Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocals.
- At age 92, George Burns starred in the movie, Eighteen Again.
- At age 94, Leopold Stokowski signed a six-year contract to conduct music.
- At age 95, Mother Jones, Union Organizer, wrote her famed biography.
- At age 100, Ichijirou Araya climbed Mount Fuji.
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