Grows Quotes

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Everybody grows but me.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

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.