Quotes of: Grows Keyword

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

All Good Children

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

We cannot carve or forcibly preserve or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows as we do - mostly after we have fallen

Invisible Tender

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

I guess this is growing up

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Keeping Faith

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Killosophy

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

The Sense of an Ending

Things can’t stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen.

Shug

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Shoeless Joe

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Matilda

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Nineteen Minutes

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice

Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.

The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

The Story of Mankind

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Simply Magic

And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.

Sunshine