Quotes About Growth

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

The best ears of our lives.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Home wasn't built in a day.

If you rest, you rust.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.