Grows Quotes - Page 19

• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disappointment, Ambition, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.15

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• A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Responsibility, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religion

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely

  Weed, Garden, Thinking

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1999). “A Woman's Hardy Garden”

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• Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

  Myron Kaufmann

  Life, Believe, Garden

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• No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Growing Up, Aging, Guides

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• A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

  Michael Caine

  Men, Body, May

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• You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

  Sharon Stone

  Fun, Should Have, Want

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• Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Perhaps Love

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• They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

  Laurence Binyon

  Death, Morning, Years

  "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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• Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Success, Echoes, Soul

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Age, Knaves

  "The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author".

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• God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

  Henrietta Mears

  Faith, Christianity

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• Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Looks, Eternity

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Experience, Generations

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• The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Animal, Men

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• Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

  Alexander Pope

  Saint, Paint, Folly

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In 4 Volumes”, p.22

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• The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Giants, Vulnerable

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.34, 谷月社

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• When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious, Growing Up, Love You

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• We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

  E. B. White

  Loyalty, Fighting, Tolerance

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.92, Cornell University Press

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• He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Old Things

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• But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

  Coolio

  Travel, Growing Up, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Basketball, Stars

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• I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers... it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Growing Up, Numbers

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

  Andrew Marvell

  Vegetables, Empires, Sexuality

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)

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