Quotes About Growth

I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

Are we not all called on to yield our children back to the world, in the end?

Were you BORN inhuman or did you grow so by degrees?! MS, MD, PHD?

Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

I know my limits. No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

inside every senior tech officer was a junior tech officer who'd been on a short leash for a long time.

Of course, compared to Serg, Tien wasn't much worse than foolish and venal. But it was hard to watch. No nine-year-old should have to deal with something this vile, this close to his heart. What will it make him?" "Eventually . . . ten," the Count said. "You do what you have to do. You grow or go under. You have to believe he will grow.

Carry on. Remember, I want maximum inefficiency, incompetence, and error. On the Vervani channels, that is. You've worked with trainees, surely. Be creative.

don't be afraid of troubles, Silver. They're a sign of life.

Aunt Lorna buys all our shoes big to grow into, Mina explained to Miles-san. That's why they slip around like that. Lieutenant Johannes, peering doubtfully into the depths of the refrigerator, murmured, Beer... ? Do you like beer, Mina? Miles-san asked. She shook her head, making her straight black hair swing around her chin. Thought not, somehow. You'll have to do better, Johannes. Aren't all you attaché fellows supposed to be ImpSec trained? Improvise!

Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time.

Andy was clutching her blue T-shirt. She rolled over, as Tony had, palms to the surface, and pushed up. Andy, turning his head toward his father, reached out with his upper hands and tried to shove off from Claire with his lowers. The floor leaped up and smacked him. For

Lois McMaster Bujold

The fastest way to get to easy is through hard.

Go dance with the girl, Mark. She thinks you're interesting. Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick—that makes us grow.

The cruelty and selfishness that make lust vile become tedious. But personally, I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

the leaves and stems would bush out in the sunlight and eventually bear whatever fruit was their genetic destiny. In this place, probably apples with antlers, thought Leo in mild hysteria, or potatoes with eyes that really winked at you.

Kako li tek svijet zbunjuje novoro?en?e, koje za prizore pred svojim o?ima nema imena, a ni pojam o imenima. Ista je pretpostavljala da dijete po?ne od maj?inog lica i njedara i otuda nastavlja dalje - i da nakon cijelog životnog vijeka još ima što nau?iti.

He consoled himself with the reflection that it was seldom he found himself in company who made him feel this stupid. It was probably good for his soul.