Quotes About Milestones

To the Jews the age of 13 (the Sumerian unit of 12 plus 1) marks the threshold of adulthood. It is curious how significant multiples of 13 are in the individual's life. At 2 x 13 the mind catches up with the body. 3 x 13 marks the beginning of a change of life. At 4 x 13 creative people catch their second breath. 5 x 13 is the age of retirement, and 6 x 13 most often marks the end of life.

En aquel remoto lugar de la profunda España las vidas tenían trayectorias rectilíneas que empezaban un día en la primera comunión y acababan otro, quince años después, en el matrimonio, sin salir de la misma iglesia y sin cambiar de cura.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

You remember the dates that changed your life.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Every tattoo on my body symbolizes a phase in my career.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

We recognize that smile when we see it in the mirror, or on the faces of our friends, at weddings, anniversaries, christenings, or ordinary afternoons. It's the smile of a man realizing he is no longer a kid, and although he has no idea how it happened, he's pretty sure it would make a cool story if he ever gets a spare minute to piece it all together.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

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

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Firsts were important

Firsts are special.

It took nearly ten thousand years from the first attempts at agriculture for the world's population to reach a billion. Now we are adding extra people at a billion every dozen years.