Quotes About Growth

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow

The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

But the Great Society did not do nearly as much to improve the economic standing of people as did the extraordinary growth of the economy. When this stopped—in the 1970s—the flaws in LBJ's programs seemed glaring. Hyperbole about the Great Society aroused unrealistic popular expectations about government that later came to haunt American liberalism.

The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and pharmaceutical industries. IBM blossomed as a leader in the computer business, soon to become a guiding star of the American economy.

By the time Nixon reached office the environmental cause had grown stronger than ever, thanks in part to media attention given to Malthusian prophets of doom. Paul Ehrlich, a professor of biology at Stanford, published The Population Bomb (1968), which foresaw the starvation of hundreds of millions of people throughout the world during the 1970s and 1980s if population growth were not controlled.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time you were an embryo, and will keep doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents its greatest strength.

Once you have learned how to ask questions—relevant and appropriate and substantial questions—you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know. —NEIL POSTMAN AND CHARLES WEINGARTNER2

Between 1950 and 1970, the suburban population doubled from 36 million to 74 million as 83% of the nation's population growth took place in the suburbs.

We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again. We must temper our national pride with critical self-knowledge

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili Proverb

1803 -  The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the U.S.     The

The shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture led to one very important development -- it laid the building blocks for civilization as we know it.

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.

Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

I have torn myself out of many bitter places In America, that seemed Tall and green-rooted in mid-noon.

Every relationship reaches a stage where it reinvents itself or plays out.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

Anyone can live anywhere. You think you can't in the beginning, but then you do.

Learning becomes a joy when children have what we call "aha!" moments.

We also know that children learn best when surrounded by their intellectual peers.