Quotes About Growth

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.