632 Quotes About Growing

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

All the while, I keep one ye on Eibhlín Dubh and one on my daughter in her car seat. She grows in that rear-view mirror. Soon, her eyes are open as I turn towards home. Soon, her gurgles can almost be translated into words. Soon, she is tugging at the straps in which I have bound her. Soon, she is smiling back at me. This is how years pass in that mirror: soon, too soon.

Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.

Growth of life makes struggles big and strong

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes, their shoulders widening and pulling the fabric of their coats taut.

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?