Joss Whedon Quotes

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Some age, others mature.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

Time brings all things to pass.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

From the egg to the apple.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

The nature of life is to grow.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Time is the great workman of Nature.