Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“I saw
without words within me, saw
as if my eyes
had grown bigger and knew
how to look without
being told what it was they saw.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)