Quotes of: Grows Keyword

I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll properly, couldn’t hop properly, couldn’t romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roaste...

Where Madness Roosts

A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, ...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

It will all become clear to you when you grow up,’ he said, 'It’s an amusing idea, of course, a nice play on words. A female wizard! You might as well invent a male witch!’ 'Warlocks,’ said Esk. 'Pardon me?’ 'My granny says men can’t be w...

Terry Pratchett

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade ...

Robert Penn Warren

I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a "dysfunctional" family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of the reason was that all of my extended kin had families at least as dysfunctional ...

Carlfred Broderick

Jesse: But your mom was in the wheelchair long before you left. Andrew Largeman: Yeah. Well, I was nine. So they sent me to therapy and put me on these drugs that were supposed to curb my anger and I've been on some form of them ever since. And when ...

Garden State

[first lines] Aibileen Clark: I was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation. Woman: And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you'd be a maid? Aibileen Clark: Yes ma'am, I did. Woman: And you knew that because... Aibileen Clark: My m...

The Help

Willy Wonka: There's no earthly way of knowing/Which direction they are going... There's no knowing where they're rowing... Mr. Salt: [weakly echoing] Rowing... Willy Wonka: Or which way the river's flowing... Is it raining, is it snowing?/Is a hurri...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Becky: Tell me what you want, as fast as it comes to you. Gilbert: Uhh... Becky: Okay? Gilbert: 'Kay. Becky: Okay. What do you want? [He's thinking about it] Becky: Faster! Gilbert: Okay. I want a new thing. House. I want a new house. And a family. [...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our world. Feel the arms of Mother Earth's bea...

Angie Karan Krezos

New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because I did my artistic "growing up" while working in this crazy, wonderful city back in my twenties. Although I love th...

Terri Windling

With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.

Called to Midnight

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

The Carolinian

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

The Energy of Slaves

The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.

Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Oh, Sir, don't you know that on the edge of fear is where trust grows?

Becoming Sir

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

Judy Gold

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Octavia Butler