More quotations tagged with “growth”
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
—Zane Grey
It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore.
—Loren Eiseley
Growing up is a trap. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
—Tom Robbins
Growth is the only evidence of life.
—John Henry Newman
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
—Douglas William Jerrold