All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.
Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
