Quotes About Growth

You evolve--cosmically and geologically. You lose each other and find each other again. Every day.

as the American mind moves from the imprisoning whimsy of cities through some harder-boiled practicality to the eagle flight of the West.

In the months to come, we'll buy a house together and get married and have a son--all of it occurring so naturally that we won't even think of ourselves as having given up our freedom, but rather as having more of it.

There's immeasurable glory in riding a tractor. You start by taking a lap around the fields, smelling the aroma, admiring the colors, day after day, until one morning everything smells ready, as if it's opened and unfurled, and you ask the wheat, 'Is it time?' And the wheat says, 'Yes, friend, it's time.' And then you know to begin the harvest.

Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though we trusted she'd come and go from our lives with regularity, she would also be a half memory [...]

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

As my boys got into their later teens, I found that upon occasion they did have fresh ideas that were better than my "old fashioned" way of doing things.

I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The

This is YOUR book. With it, comes the responsibility to be a better woman. Also a better friend, better daughter, better mother, better wife. Not everything will apply. What

From 1968 to 2001, US per capita incomes doubled. During that same time, the average church member's giving fell from 3.10 percent to 2.66 percent of their total income.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.

The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

We should wish our children full lives, jam-packed with triumph and tragedy, boredom and excitement, beautiful, messy, passionate and worth celebrating. I

there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.