Quotes About Growth

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.

Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

I was not a fussy kid and had a good appetite. Only, I was not happy to eat keerai and vegetables.

In the countryside, planting flowers, vegetables and trees is not difficult.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

We have signed an exclusive licensing agreement with a company called TurnerPatterson, another African-American company, and what I thought would be a great vehicle for 'Ebony,' since it is such a strong brand name with tremendous loyalty, is to grow that brand name even more across different areas.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

Football has not just been a sport, it's been a vehicle in my life.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.

Mr. Xi is all-in on robotics, aerospace, high-speed rail, new-energy vehicles and advanced medical products.