Quotation Explorer - 'Grows'

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows. - Bolivian Proverb
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. - Otto von Bismarck
...dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow. - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. - Elizabeth George
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. - Vladimir Nabokov
The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. - Tiffany Madison
You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world. - Holly Ordway
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief - Euripides
Time as he grows old teaches all things. - Aeschylus
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. - John Steinbeck
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there. - William Shakespeare
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. - Michael J. Fox
I am, a shadowthat grows longer as the sunmoves, drawn outon a thread of wonder.If I bear burdensthey begin to be rememberedas gifts, goods, a basketof bread that hurtsmy shoulders but closes mein fragrance. I caneat as I go. ("Stepping Westward") - Denise Levertov
Fear grows in the darkness of the mind. It vanishes with the light of knowledge like the morning mist. - Debasish Mridha
As when, O lady mine,With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould,The more the marble wastes,The more the statue grows. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali
In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end. - Dada Bhagwan
as the words grow shorter and the void grows deeper, all that i treasure are memories others have forsaken - Devjeet Chawdhary
Sometimes having no money for a long time feels like a voice inside your head that grows louder and more obnoxious the longer you're without it. - Ryan Smith
It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty. - Debasish Mridha
When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things. - Debasish Mridha
Each oneFrom one’s little nooseCranes outYells and shoutsGroans aloudAnd grows stoutAnd the noose tightensLeaving no way to creap outTill at the endSwollenSpent outBecomes silent.I am also having my turn among all. - Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you are giving, your mind grows wings of joy to fly. - Debasish Mridha
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. - John Steinbeck
Anger is an indication of pain and pain is an indication of sadness that grows inward and creates a lot of discomfort. - Euginia Herlihy
A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life. - Auliq-Ice
Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. - Cristen Rodgers
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. - Napoleon Hill
What you feed in yourself that grows. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Majority of people find that nature is anything that walks and grows on planet Earth, astronomers have found that this nature stretches way beyond our atmosphere as far as we can see in to the Universe. - Michel Reitsma
Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. - Michel Foucault
The Leader who grows his team not just in numbers but by nurturing the roots of their success,has planted a field of dreams - Bluenscottish
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. - Anonymous
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Tse-tung
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them. - James M. Barrie
The noble spirit grows from the bareness of thoughts. - Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
In new surroundings, one grows new eyes. - Marty Rubin
Your universe grows when you are learning. - Debasish Mridha
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. - John Archibald Wheeler
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley
When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down. - Sumner Davenport
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. - John Leonard
The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding. - Roshan Sharma
Acquiring a blissful brain and in peace, is when I think positively, the sounds around and within me become music, my movement as one of a conscious dance, my smile breaking in to an infectious laughter, my mind transcending in meditation, and my life grows and becomes a celebration! - Angie karan
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. - Will Durant
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics. - A.E. Samaan
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. - John Piper
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. - Greek proverb
how shall we be beautiful? By loving the One who is always beautiful. The more love grows in you, the more beauty grows: for love itself is the beauty of the soul. - Augustine of Hippo
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Every seed dies before It grows. - Switchfoot
[...], so that your hope grows so vast that it fills every region of your space. - Shaykh 'Abdallah ibn Ahmad Ba-Sawdan
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough. - The Talmud
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. - Alan Moore
I am a gardener of thoughts, and my garden only grows flowers of love. - Debasish Mridha
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. - Jocelyn Murray
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. - Emily Carr
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile! - Miguel Ruiz
Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark. - Elder David A. Bednar
Love Is Like A Plant.We Give It Attention,It Grows. We Ignore It,It Dies - Chris J.Farah
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. - Gloria Steinem
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.
Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith
If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible - Elizabeth Rundle Charles
You never understand life until it grows inside of you. - Sandra Chami Kassis
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. - Thomas Jefferson
And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. - William Shakespeare
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. - Ralph Ellison
With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows. - Debasish Mridha
Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life. - Rohit Sharma
You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia - Kieran Harper
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas William Jerrold
A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows. - Matshona Dhliwayo
LOVE grows within the soul and when you are filled with this divine source you will shine like a STAR* you will radiate with the profound love within. Like a river you will gather all small rivers and make them reach their ultimate goal (SEA). HER heart only knows to LOVE. Love and LOVE. - Angie karan
The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus
The mouse is a sober citizen who knows that the grass grows in order that mice may store it as underground haystacks, and that snow falls in order that mice may build subways from stack to stack… - Aldo Leopold
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. - William Shakespeare
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith
Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine - Munia Khan
She is a free spirit: an inquisitive voyager. She knows no boundaries and resists control. She sails fearlessly with 'time' as her soul grows beauty. She is graceful, yet she owns her story. - Amelia Dashwood, The Writer of the Woods
Peace always grows in a loving and compassionate mind. - Debasish Mridha
Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. - Stefan Emunds
Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born - J.D. Willd
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. - George Carlin
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. - A.E. Samaan
How beautiful it will be if your heart grows only the flowers of love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows. - Sima Mittal
Forgiveness is the flower of love and kindness; it only grows in the bravest heart. - Debasish Mridha
All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins. - Anna Akhmatova
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. - William Shakespeare
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries. - Richard Preston
Love and Hate: both are four-lettered and both involve passion. And sometimes when love turns into hate, passion grows murderous. - Natalya Vorobyova
Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil. - Guadalupe Nettel
Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom. - Richard S. Hartmetz
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS! - Joyce Meyer
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. - Victor Hugo
Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness. - Balroop Singh
Everything you go through grows you. - Robert Tew
As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul. - Genevieve Gerard
The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust. - Israelmore Ayivor
Since love grows within us, so beautiful that we shall love each other without having regrets again and again. - Auliq Ice
As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with endless power and, even better, your power of love and capacity to give grows by giving. - Debasish Mridha
Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song. "Wherever I go the grass grows greener. - Richie Norton
A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers. - George R.R. Martin
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God. - Kenneth Copeland
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. - Dejan Stojanovic
A chain grows weaker with each new link. - Marty Rubin
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
That’s the magic of revisions every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows. - Kelly Barnhill
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature. - Kemi Sogunle
A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced. - Suzanne Haynes, Loretta Nyhan
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Making Money online is not the easiest, That's why my business grows daily with people who need my service. I will help you understand in a simple way how to cut out all the middle men and increase daily business in less than 1 hour per day. - Biancco Gardner
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities. - Debasish Mridha
Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life; it grows in the adversity of life. - Debasish Mridha
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. - Joss Whedon
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. - Aristotle
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. - Unknown
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere. - W. Somerset Maugham
Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows. - Tamara L. Chilver
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. - Brian Tracy
The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases. - Marty Rubin
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. - John R.W. Stott
The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius. - Michael Meade
When the music note grows tired we will land on the wings of a guardian - One already accustomed to my attempts to fly One aware of my weakness for a beautiful try - Phibby Venable
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine
When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Like our muscles, our thinking power grows when we struggle. - Debasish Mridha
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything. - Robert Browning
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave. - Edward Dyer
Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment. - Tim Fargo
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. - Oscar Wilde
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. - Henry David Thoreau
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. - Ovid
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant
Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. - Gore Vidal
A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life. - Debasish Mridha
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