Growing Quotes - Page 21

• Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.

  George Eliot

  Revelations

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

  Stephen King

  Dying, Talent, Static

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Way, Something New

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Eye, Laughing

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34

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• I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

  Lucy Larcom

  Believe, Artistic, Study

  "Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary" edited by Daniel Dulany Addison, (Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War), 1895.

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• The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Strong, Party, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  New York, Growing Up, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.

  Peter Jackson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  Dark Horizons Interview, March 27, 2006.

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• I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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