Growing Quotes - page 2

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. (Washington Irving)

When you stop growing you start dying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Betty Friedan

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

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.

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. (William Butler Yeats)

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

Denzel Washington

I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with.

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.

Salvador Dalí

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Sophocles

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

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.

Walter Scott

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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.

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.

Nina Dobrev

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Phyllis Diller

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

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