Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“I have grown so tired of Woman with a capital W, though I suppose it is rankest heresy to say so. I dont want to be Woman at allI have begun to feel that I want to be something like thisWOA.”
—Frances Hodgson Burnett (18491924)
“When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, Ill write onebut Im grown up now, she added in a sorrowful tone: At least theres no room to grow up any more here.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)