Grows Quotes

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.