- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grow Quotes
Growth rarely happens on a straight line.
Several of these reflect on how long it can take to feel ready for the next stage, and how growing up in a certain place shapes the person you become. For related ideas on adapting over time, see our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't grow the economy by growing government.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
- New Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
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- Nov 07, 2020