Growing Quotes - Page 21

• I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.

  Joseph Beuys

  Thinking, Tree, Sculpture

  "Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945". Book by Claudia Mesch, 2013.

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• Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

  Brian Aldiss

  Law, Growth, Strange

  "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Block, Support

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• [On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

  Stephen Fry

  Growing Up, Book, Dark

  "Room 101", (1994-).

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• There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Smell, Three

  "Song: "Jumbo Go Away"". 1981.

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• The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

  John C. Maxwell

  May, Matter, Today

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

  Angelina Jolie

  Want, Exhausted, Older Women

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• We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

  Jimmy Wales

  New York, Cities, Cheerful

  "Jimmy Wales: Digital Champion of Free Speech" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2014.

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• There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Country, Flower

  "The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1998.

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• A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

  Virginia Satir

  Body, Observation, Conclusion

  Virginia Satir (1967). “Conjoint Family Therapy”

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• That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

  Paul McCartney

  Growing Up, Surprise, Inevitable

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• How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Dream, Morning, Dark

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• And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

  Edward Lear

  Eyelashes, Teeth, Dinner

  'The Two Old Bachelors' (1871)

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• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  Lucy Lawless

  Growing Up, Real, Hero

  "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE". The Times-Picayune, January 14, 1997.

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• The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, People, Trying

  "Dillon Bucks Wayward-Youth Roles". The Arizona Republic, June 24, 2005.

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• It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

  Halle Berry

  Life Changing, Taken, Ultrasounds

  "Yummy Working Mummy". Sunday Herald Sun, October 21, 2007.

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• there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Reason, States

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

  Christina Aguilera

  Music, Growing Up, Real

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• Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Blood, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.201, Penguin

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brother, Children, Growing Up

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

  Cathie Pelletier

  Giving, Advice, Backyards

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• Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

  James McNerney

  People, Development, Helping

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Sparks, Heat, Authority

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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