Quotes about Growth

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

I suppose I should make all the skis six foot and let Leif grow into them. That way we could all use them easy enough." He shook his head. "I know my wife would love to ski again. You ever seen anyone carry a baby in a sling or backpack while on skis?

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.