Grows Quotes

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

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

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My reputation grows with every failure.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.