Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 66

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.
 Helen Hooven Santmyer
It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
 Jose Contreras
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.
 Nancy Friday
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
 Eric Sevareid
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
 Molly Ringwald
Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.
 Dan Savage
We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.
 Gerhard Schroder
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline
 James Truslow Adams
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
 Joe Abercrombie
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.
 Hector Berlioz
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
 Loretta Young
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.
 Magnus
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.
 Mads Mikkelsen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.
 George Ripley
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
 Hume Cronyn