Grown

Famous quotes containing the word grown:

“Those friends have left.
Only stumps remain
in the thickets
and we’ve grown old, besides.
Love’s been cut off
at the roots.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I’ve grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)