Quotes About Growth

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

You can only be twice someone's age once.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

An old man is twice a child.

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.