Famous quotes containing the word grow:
“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (1662–1742)