All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

— Tacitus

“I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?”

— Charles Bukowski

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure…

— Sumner Redstone

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

— Anna Leonowens

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

— Thomas Cooper

In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have…

— Raghuram Rajan

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for…

— Josiah Wedgwood

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

— Henry Fuseli

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

— Joe Biden

“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it?…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.

— Jamie Dimon

“So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

— William Pitt

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a…

— Tim Robbins