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- If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
- Gail Sheehy
- If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.
- Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, on lesbians in the LA Police Dept.
- I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.
- James Gould Cozzens
- America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
- President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
- Author Unknown
- It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
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