Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 128

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
 Bill Mauldin
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.
 Ty Pennington
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
 Russell Means
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
 William Irwin Thompson
The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
 Peter Senge
I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
 Kevin Drum
Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.
Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
 Malidoma Patrice Some
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
 St. Jerome
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
 Nancy Astor
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
 Elfriede Jelinek
...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable.
 Luther L. Bohanon
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
 Robert South
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
 Barbara De Angelis
God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
 Joshua L. Liebman
I\'ve experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
 Julianne Hough
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.
 Sally Kohn