Grown Up Yet?

Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman

The trick is growing up without growing old. - Casey Stengel

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Growth is the process of responding positively to change. - Paul Harvey

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. - Euripides

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. - Daniel F E Auber

I plan on growing old much later in life, or maybe not at all. - Patty Carey

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S Firestone

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. - Samuel Smiles

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort. - Zach Galifianakis

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has not time to form. - Andre Maurois

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. - Madame de Rothschild

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. - Doug Larson

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. - Lao Tzu

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. - Liz Smith

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Unknown

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. - Virginia Satir

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. - J S B Morse

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

Don't let the age on your driver's license determine your season in life. Everyone's growing seasons look a bit different. - Vicki Kuyper

Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up. - Unknown

Leadership development is not an 'event.' It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. - Linda F Thornton

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. - Thomas Sowell

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. - Colette