Growing Up Is Optional Quotes & Sayings

Growing older is certain; growing wiser is harder and optional. — Debasish Mridha

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see. — Avril Lavigne

People are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren't getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope ... with all of their might. — Stephen R. Covey

growing old was mandatory but growing up was optional. — Carl A. Sparks

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories. — Roy Conli

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers. — Steve Ells

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance. — Owen Feltham

The Gita is not for those who have no faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose. — Orrin Woodward

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. — Heather Brewer

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. — Sebastian Horsley

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. — Sister Souljah

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. — Carroll Bryant

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear — Alicia Suskin Ostriker