Grows Quotes

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

The #lotus comes from the #murkiest #water.. but #grows into the #purest thing.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

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.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

All is well since all grows better

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.

Let us grow together, enjoy together.

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.

Empathy grows as we learn.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.