Quotes About Growth

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.

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!

I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.

The rich mould of dead men's graves. Creeping where grim death has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. Creeping on where time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

and I fancied I was little Pip again.

Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble-bush; getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter. After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. One

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

How could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?

When I perceived (which I did, almost as soon) that jealousy was growing out of this, I liked this society still better. Had I not been subject to jealousy,

There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.

There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited,

There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned

Boys are very like men to be sure.

My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth! Let me think, as I look back upon that flowing water, now a dry channel overgrown with leaves, whether there are any marks along its course, by which I can remember how it ran.

Hacía poco que él y otros ciento cuarenta maestros habían salido al mismo tiempo de la misma fabrica, manufacturados con las mismas normas [...]. Si hubiese aprendido algunas cosas menos, habría estado en situación de enseñar muchas cosas más de una manera infinitamente mejor

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Sev onu," dedi gene. "Sev onu, sev onu! Yüzüne gülüyorsa sev onu. Yüre?inden yaral?yorsa gene sev. Ci?erini paramparça etse bile... insan büyüyüp geli?tikçe ald??? yaralar daha derinle?ir çünkü... ald?rma, sen gene sev onu, sev!

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape." Estella in Great Expectations

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished; and

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.

Exactly what I myself had thought, many times. Exactly what was perfectly manifest to me at the moment. But how could I, a poor dazed village lad avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall everyday.

I will live in the Past, Present and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

I went forth last night on compulsion I learnt a lesson which is working now .

La historia la cuenta el mismo protagonista, y el desafío a que se tuvo que enfrentar Dickens al concebir este narrador en primera persona tiene una doble vertiente. Por un lado, debió asegurarse de que Pip sonara convincente cuando confiesa sus errores para que no pensemos que los admite simplemente para ganar nuestra simpatía; por otro, tuvo que probar la redención de Pip, y demostrar que esta no solo se traduce en palabras, sino también en hechos.