Quotes About Development

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Only the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

I started tennis around age 2.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.