#growing

When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#growing-old #old #age

Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#literature #victorian-era #age

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up ↗

— John Hively

#growing-old #growing-up #inspirational #age

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#father #fathers #fathers-and-daughters #growing-up #life

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way. ↗

— Angela Johnson

#coming-of-age #growing-up #age

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #girls #growing-up #age

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#growing-up #business

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#broadband #communicating #computers #connections #growing