Grows Quotes

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.