Quotes About Growth

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts—the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you'd not even think about loving until you'd left it for a couple of years.

Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.

I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.

As a town, we had made the error of staying small—and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Growth of the Soil by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The copy he gave me had once belonged to Norma M. Saylor, who lived in Palmyra, New Jersey.

Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere. In teachers' manuals, in the platitudes muttered by educators, in school boards, in the community, and most significantly, in myself.

realized his wounds had enhanced his manhood and his own sense of himself.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

You're Beautiful Like the green romance of a bud and lily's pink, gentle sway. You: more beautiful than yesterday. Wildflower's blue surprise. Daisy's white, sunny play. You're more beautiful than yesterday. Orchid's purple mystery Mum's bronze ole` You: more beautiful than yesterday. Rose's orange perfume, even tulip's yellow secrets say: You're more beautiful that yesterday. Poppy's red, teasing lips, but YOUR beauty will never fade. You: more lovely than yesterday, You: my dazzling bouquet.

if you have a positive attitude and strive to give your best, eventually, you will overcome problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen