Quotes About Growth

Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

L.A. kinda raised me a little bit as a 21-year-old kid from Oklahoma.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

I softened in my old age.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

I just do very old man, adult things.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Old men are children for the second time.

I don't really listen to my old music.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.