Grown Up Yet?

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

I'm not aging, I'm marinating. - Unknown

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

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

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. - Tom Stoppard

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

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait. - Leo Rosten

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. - Nina Dobrev

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. - Faith Hill

Though many people regret growing old, it's a privilege denied to many. - Unknown

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

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. - Judith Regan

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

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

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

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J Plomp

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

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. - Dave Dravecky

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

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. - Venus Williams

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. - Logan P Smith

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

The attention economy is not growing, which means we have to grab the attention that someone else has today. - Brent Leary

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. - D.J. Cotrona

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

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats

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

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dali

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. - Andrew Harvey

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

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