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Quotes About Growth

Out with the cold, in with the woo.
~ E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"
Friendship should be a great promise, a perennial springtime.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1842
And now every field is clothed with grass, every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms; now the year assumes its gayest attire.
~ Virgil
A fine spring is good for everybody.
~ Russian proverb
Springtime is the bringer of light...
~ Charles Wessolowski, 1898
...spring-time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms and new-born verdure...
~ William Wordsworth
Winter and spring overlap at the seams— chilly breezes and warm green dreams!
~ Terri Guillemets
...the sweet wildflower breath of spring...
~ Terri Guillemets
Springtime flowers bloom like colorful arrows piercing their way to the sun.
~ Terri Guillemets
Spring triumphs over Winter (He always lets Her win).
~ Terri Guillemets
Spring stirs under silent snow.
~ Terri Guillemets
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring... The grass flames up on the hill sides like a spring fire... as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame...
~ Henry David Thoreau
Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring.
~ Terri Guillemets
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ Bernard Shaw, 1896
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.
~ Robert H. Schuller
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
The Sun is Low, to Say the Least, Although it is Well-Red; Yet, Since it Rises in the Yeast, It Should be Better Bred!
~ Gelett Burgess
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
~ Author unknown, c. 1950s
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
~ German proverb
It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.
~ Author Unknown
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.
~ Author Unknown
...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...
~ Anne M. Frank, letter, 1944
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
~ Author Unknown