Quotes About Milestones

Scout has been on 95 flights before she was 1 years old. I remember in the beginning I felt guilty.

To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

I think anytime you have an event for the first time ever, like a Super Bowl or WrestleMania or UFC, as the years go by, everything becomes more polished with promotion and bigger stars.

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

God has reserved momentous victories and great rewards for us, but we'll never make it to our milestones if we can't make it through our moments.

I am just indulging in watching our daughter grow, seeing her walk around the house, get up and sometimes fall on her bum, it is a beautiful sight and very heartening to see her becoming a loving and happy child.

When I turned 20 I signed my south film and by the time I was 23, I had done three south films.

I started playing with my dad, and football was my dream forever. Step by step, I learnt a lot. I worked really hard, and finally when I was eighteen, I signed my first professional contract.

I always thought when I was 22 something bomb was gonna happen, then when I was 22, System started blowing up in like '96. Not blowing up really, but I started putting it into fruition. '96 is when people started noticing us, then '97 was when we got signed.

Jeetendra and I had 14 silver jubilee films.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

The only two places you stand on receiving lines are funerals and weddings. There was probably something poignant in that fact, but Maya couldn't imagine what it could be. She

I guess it's a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year, so it's not really a big thing.

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.