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Quotes About Development

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
~ Tana French, Faithful Place
Some people are boys longer than others.
~ Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
~ Cyndi Lauper
Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
~ Salman Rushdie
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
~ Abraham Maslow
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
~ Adam Ant
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
~ African Spir
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort.
~ Albert Einstein
He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be
~ Alethea Kontis
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
~ Alice Cooper
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
~ Alice Hoffman
I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.
~ Andrej Pejic
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
~ Anthony Daniels
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
~ Baltasar Gracian
When men change, maybe Bond will change.
~ Barbara Broccoli
Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
~ Billy Kennedy
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
~ Branch Rickey
I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.
~ Bret McKenzie
Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.
~ Camille Henrot