Quotes About Growth

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes.

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

Mommies are just big little girls.

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.

I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

Sumer is icumen in,Lhude sing cuccu!Groweth sed, and bloweth med,And springth the wude nu—Sing cuccu!

Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.

Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

For the very true beginning of her [wisdom] is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

For who hath despised the day of small things?

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

Awareness is a flower that blooms but never dies.

If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.