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Quotes About Development

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns
~ Unknown
Nature is always behind the age.
~ Oscar Wilde
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
~ Liv Tyler
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Age merely shows what children we remain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
~ Arthur Brisbane
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
~ Pope John XXIII
In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
~ Unknown
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
~ Anne Bradstreet
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
~ John Andrew Holmes
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
~ Mark Twain
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
~ George Orwell
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
~ Benjamin Franklin
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
~ Erich Fromm
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
~ Chamfort
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
~ George MacDonald
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
~ Marya Mannes
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Home wasn't built in a day.
~ Jane Sherwood Ace
If you rest, you rust.
~ Helen Hayes
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!
~ Robert Louis Stevenson