Grows Quotes - Page 4

• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Shrinks

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Growing Up, Childhood, Grew Up

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Desire grows by what it feeds on.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Desire

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2313, e-artnow

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• A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.

  Wilson Rawls

  Loyalty, Dog, Children

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

  James M. Barrie

  Strength, Children, Passion

  "The Little Minister". Book by James Matthew Barrie, p. 143, 1891.

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• Empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Empathy

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.101, Macmillan

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• This bright new year is given me
  To live each day with zest
  To daily grow and try to be
  My highest and my best!

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Zest, Years

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible

  Daryl Hannah

  Food, Goal, Trying

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• The more the marble wastes,
  The more the statue grows.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Sculpture, Waste

  "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.

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• When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Devil, Hermits, Turns

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  Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

  Sallust

  Inspirational, Balance And Harmony, Decay

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• Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

  Donna Tartt

  Aggravation, Challenges, Literature

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• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

  William C. Bryant

  Sculpture, Marble, Sculptors

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• How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Poetry, Poetic

  1985 In the New York Times, 12 May.

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Selfless, God Love

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sri Lanka, Shining, Example

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.775, Aum Publications

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• It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

  Gilbert Murray

  Literature, Great Service

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.12, Oxford University Press on Demand

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