Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“Miss Mary Emerson is here,the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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)
“Ive grown accustomed to her face.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (19181986)
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