Grows Quotes - Page 5

• I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Mothers Day, Mom, Growing Up

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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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• 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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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

  John Berger

  Past, Dying, Placenta

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.78, Vintage

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• Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

  William Penn

  Lust, Waste, Love Grows

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

  Emmy Rossum

  Growing Up, Character, Stories

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• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  F. L. Lucas

  Voice, Failing, Pulpit

  F L Lucas, (2013). “The Decline And Fall Of The Romantic Ideal”, p.167, Read Books Ltd

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Past, Foundation, Research

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• It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

  Brian Austin Green

  Growing Up, Facts, Audience

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• We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

  Jules Verne

  Book, Iron, Opinion

  Jules Verne (2008). “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ronald Osborne

  Motivational, Wrestling, Risk

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  It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moving On, Growing Up, Memories

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

  Cher

  Friendship, Trust, Encouragement

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

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• Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
  Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Song: 'Mind Games' ('Mind Games')". 1973.

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Absence, Forgetful

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Angel, Blades, Grass

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Envy, Neighbor

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• Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

  Russell Baker

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Soul, Flesh

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

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• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Weed, Marijuana

  "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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