Growing Quotes

And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.