Quotes About Growth

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The best age is the age you are.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.