I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
Our purpose is to grow up and become love
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
You don't go through life, you grow through life
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
The goal of the Christian is to grow up into Christ.
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. . . . . . Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.
Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.
If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.
It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.
Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!
It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?
To grow old is to grow remorseful.
When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not to bring them to Him, not to teach them to walk toward Him, as soon as they can walk toward anyone, is wronging a child beyond words. The terrible indictment uttered by the Lord, "Them that were entering in ye hindered," and the millstone warning for offending little ones, are close akin to the deserts of those who ruin a man's whole day of life by wronging his morning hours. Not to help a child to know the saving power of Christ is to hold back a man from salvation.