Grow Quotes

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon

Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Libraries are not made, they grow.
- Augustine Birrell

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
- Robert Penn Warren

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you,
or they may do it.
- Russell Baker

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it
is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good,
and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
- Richard Cecil

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A loving relationship is one in which
the loved one is free to be himself -
to laugh with me, but never at me;
to cry with me, but never because of me;
to love life, to love himself,
to love being loved.
Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself,
encourage me to grow.
- Cher

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival
skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
- Doug Larson

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
- Janice Dickinson

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you,
following you right on up until you die.
- Paul Simon

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful.
I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
- Kirsten Dunst

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Moliere

So many people try to grow up too fast,
and it's not fun!
You should stay a kid as long as possible!
- Vanessa Hudgens

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in
them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed.
If you truly eradicated it in a child,
he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
- Alan Ladd

I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
- John Walters

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly,
you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now.
But that's a joy.
- Liam Neeson

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take
total responsibility for our attitudes.
That's the day we truly grow up.
- John C. Maxwell

Those who love deeply never grow old;
they may die of old age,
but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
- Antonio Villaraigosa

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much
of my own food as possible.
- Daryl Hannah

The really frightening thing about middle age is the
knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

We have to be able to grow up.
Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life.
They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
- Lauren Hutton

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
- Bryan White

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