Growing Quotes (page 18)

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• player
• thinking
• kids

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen. Tim McGraw

• people
• difficult
• grow

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp. Joss Stone

• greatness
• garden
• great

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps. Curtis Stone

• growing up
• fish
• same

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. Vince Poscente

• focus
• job
• country

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes. Rob Portman

• thinking
• personality
• personal

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. Patti Davis

• life
• literature
• terrible

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. Wallace Stevens

• growing up
• growing old
• old

The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel

• fear
• thinking
• kids

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food. Rachel McAdams

• people
• soul
• vintage

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck

• growing older
• grow
• older

We don't grow older, we grow riper. Pablo Picasso

• men
• play
• growing old

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• play
• growing old
• old

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• thinking
• thoughts
• personality

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. William Lyon Phelps

• success
• time
• oneness

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. J. G. Holland