It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.
You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.
I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
