Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“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)
“I see advertisements for active young men, as if activity were the whole of a young mans capital. Yet I have been surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, as if I had absolutely nothing to do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I am sure tis safer to
Avoid whats grown than question how tis born.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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