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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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
- Oak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
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- Nov 07, 2020