Grow Quotes

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.