" Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.
Life is not a set timeline of milestones.
"If you miss the opportunity to meet developmental milestones during the first 1,000 days of life, then there's not an opportunity to go back and revalue them," says Schwarzenberg.
Modern life is a series of generational milestones.
The real milestones are less prepossessing.
Set milestones and stop to celebrate each small success along the way.
Other relationship milestones include meeting the parents, becoming the 'plus one' on all invites, seeing each other through an illness and comfortably phoning each other at work.
From the very beginning I thought about how I would reward myself when I reached certain milestones.
It has become something of a family ritual: school successes, new jobs and other milestones are toasted in a splendid local tavern above plates of steak and chips.
This will be your roadmap, outlining the things you need to do, the cost of the entire operation, the strategies and tactics you have for execution, and the milestones to chart your business' progress.
According to a poll of 2,000 people, the 25 milestones begin with a first kiss at the age of 15 and end with a relatively early retirement at 60.
There were no specific milestones we were looking for.
But, according to Duggan, applauding progress and celebrating milestones at work is not about that supposed sense of entitlement.
The triumphant milestones encountered so far: Nahorkatiya, Moran, Anklesvar, Cambay, Bombay High to name a few: have brought us closer to the goal of self-reliance in oil, but in a reflex action to the increasing demand' the goal itself is tantalizingly moving away.
In truth, the other thing pushing parents to send kids to preschool is the cold reality that kindergarten has become the new first grade, with parents pushing academic learning earlier with the fear that their kids will fall behind if they don't meet major milestones like reading well before what is considered normal.
" "We are becoming much more aware and appreciating development beyond [the age of 18] and I think it's a really good initiative," says Antrobus, who believes we often rush through childhood, wanting our youngsters to achieve key milestones very quickly.
An 80th birthday is cause for celebration, but along the way other milestones matter too.
But those teen and 20-something milestones are nothing compared to the feelings of elation that the ripe-young age of 33 brings.
Are milestones like 21 and 30 important?