Quotes About Growth

Bob, you know something . . ." Luckman said at last. "I used to be the same age as everyone else." "I think so was I," Arctor said. "I don't know what did it." "Sure, Luckman," Arctor said, "you know what did it to all of us." "Well, let's not talk about it." He continued inhaling noisily, his long face sallow in the dim midday light.

But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.

When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

It is therapeutic to meet these people who have intimidated you. And to discover what they are really like. Then the intimidation goes.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

No es un instinto animal lo que nos hace sentirnos insatisfechos. Les diré lo que es: la aspiración más alta del hombre, la necesidad de crecer y progresar..., de encontrar cosas nuevas..., horizontes nuevos. De extenderse y conquistar nuevos territorios, nuevas experiencias; de comprender y vivir en una evolución permanente. De dejar de lado la rutina y la repetición, de romper la insensata monotonía de la costumbre e ir adelante, y no detenerse...

Her mind was always off in some odd direction, flashing and echoing in its fullness, and baffling him eternally; he could never keep up with her, and so his awe of her continually grew.

The mortal human only anticipates as a lower lifeform, the form to come....

As you experience a growth of your cortex area. You'll have many new and exciting concepts occur to you, especially of a religious nature.

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

So then when they rise and tend to be, the more quickly they grow that they may be, so much the more they haste not to he. —St. Augustine

He built, and the more he built the more he enjoyed building. By now the city was over eighty miles deep and five miles in diameter. The whole island had been converted into a single vast city that honeycombed and interlaced farther each day. Eventually it would reach the land beyond the ocean; then the work would begin in earnest.

You know, I struggled for years to get through Training. I had to work and pay my own way. Washed dishes, worked in kitchens. Studied at night, learned, crammed, worked on and on. And you know what I think, now? What? I wish I'd become a plant earlier.

I wish I'd become a plant earlier.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Sargon grew up as a gardener

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.

But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.

But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.