Grown

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)

“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 (1817–1862)

“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)