Famous quotes containing the word grew:
“I lay upon my baby;
Ye little childer dear,
I looked on my cold baby
When the morn grew frosty and clear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Paris came to Ida.
He grew to slim height
Among the silver-hoofed beasts.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)