Quotes About Growth

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

I don't want to age myself.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

I've never worried about age.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.