Quotes About Growth

Neither youth nor childhood is folly or incapacity

Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath sing the honey bees.

It was like picking a scab off a sore; he actually wanted scar tissue - it would be quite wrong to try and forget, to blank it all out. Every fraught memory that lurked here had played its role: everything he was today was an indirect result of the life he had led then. It confirmed the rightness of every step he had taken.

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

If there is progress then there is a novel.

Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?

Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

age and learn to breathe again

he sees squirming roots trampled under the foliage of his mind by the holiday crowds as by the feet of the straining minister. From his eyes sparrows start and sing. His ears are toadstools, his fingers have begun to sprout leaves (his voice is drowned under the falls) . Poet, poet! sing your song, quickly! or not insects but pulpy weeds will blot out your kind.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

Read, read, read.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

It does last, Horace said. Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.

There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.