Growing Quotes - page 2

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. (Margaret Mead)
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. View quote
Washington Irving
When you stop growing you start dying. View quote
William S. Burroughs
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times each day. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. View quote
Betty Friedan
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. View quote
Betty Friedan
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. View quote
Octavia Butler
My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people. View quote
Imelda Marcos
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Growing up I didn't watch movies. View quote
Denzel Washington
I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. View quote
Anthony Powell
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping. View quote
Walter Scott
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. View quote
Manuel Puig
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process. (M. Scott Peck)
Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. View quote
Nina Dobrev
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. View quote
Phyllis Diller
What interests me is what children go through while growing up. View quote
Beverly Cleary
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. View quote
Beverly Cleary