Quotes About Growth

Degenerate sons and daughters,Life is too strong for you—It takes life to love life.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

The past can't touch you unless you let it.

Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated." [ Saturday Evening Post , September 27, 1958]

I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He was a good-looking man, strong and ruddy. When I was little he seemed tall to me, but by the time I was thirteen he had become medium.

Human beings were made to interact with growing things, not to be born, live, and die in the midst of concrete set in the middle of polluted air!

Even if you can not sculpt great foundations, because you have not got that sort of talent, at least carve a child's toy... Start SOMEWHERE. Do not let this desire be simply a frustration that turns into bitterness when it could grow and develop, given some small outlet..

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.

The march of the human mind is slow.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

For death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

A man must either fall or rise in adversity.

When one flowers dies, another is born.

Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.