Quotes About Growth

No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

Oysters speaking doesn''t give a pearl.

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d'automne descend plus vite - Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

The ivy of the old age begins at the feet that hurt. (Le lierre de la vieillesse - Commence aux pieds qui blessent.)

The soul is like pollen : it reminds it.

The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)

The worst enemy is oneself, but I do not kill, because I love him.

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

I've also learned, thank goodness, that anger and resentment are just like poison. Left to fester, they will destroy and attack any chance or opportunity you'll ever have of being more and living fully. Fear,

Change begins at home

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.