Growing

Famous quotes containing the word growing:

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing boy.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“and yet hands, hands growing out of pictures,
hands crawling out of the walls,
hands that excite oblivion,
like a wind ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)