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A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.(unknown author)
A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.
A mushroom grows on dung.
A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
A tree will not grow taller by measuring it more often.Minkukel
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.Gertrude Stein
All things grow with time, except grief.As time goes by, grief will diminish.
An okra tree does not grow taller than its master.This means that young persons, even with a higher education, can not surpass their elders.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.François de La Rochefoucauld
As the garden grows so does the gardener.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.William Jennings Bryan
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.William Golding
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.Criss Jami
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
Don't grow up, its a trap.(unknown author)
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.Mick Jagger
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.Pablo Picasso
Eyes that see do not grow old.
Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
Great oaks grow from little acorns.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.Chili Davis
Growing rice gives you more than poetry will.
Growing your own tomatoes is the best way to devote three months of your life to saving $2.17(unknown author)
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.Marion Nestle
I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The return of the King
Quoted: Eowyn
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.George Harrison
It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.Lewis Wolpert
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.Alexander Pope
Let the grass grow under one's feet.Wait before doing something or do something slowly.
Little by little grow the bananas.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.John Lennon
Money doesn't grow on trees.It's not easy to make money.
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.Ramez Naam
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.Winston Churchill
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.David Everett
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Great things may come from small beginnings.
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.A.B. Guthrie
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.Ben Folds
The desire to write grows with writing.Desiderius Erasmus
The dream of every cell is to become two cells.François Jacob
The moon grows darker as it gets nearer to the sun.
The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Goldberry
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.Molière
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.Masanobu Fukuoka
Then God said, 'Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.' And so it was. The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good.Bible
Source: Genesis 1:11-12
There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.Ma Jun
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