They Grow Quotes

251 quotes by 219 authors

Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow… — Charlotte Bronte
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't… — Dan Buettner
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. — James A. Garfield
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. — Helena Rutherfurd Ely
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. — Josh Billings
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest. — William Hazlitt
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions… — Isaac Asimov
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters. — George Polya
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. — Daniel D. Palmer
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who… — Alan Jackson
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to… — Saint Augustine
We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that… — Sarah Silverman
There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different.… — May Robson
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds. — David Hobson

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