Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but businessno varietyit has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown manthe one he used to be.”
—Cesare Pavese (19081950)
“The work is done, grown old he thought,
According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage, I swerved in nought,
Something to perfection brought;
But louder sang that ghost What then?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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