Grow Dim Quotes

#1. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Sterling Hayden

#2. The years thunder by.
The dreams of youth grow dim
where they lie
caked in dust on the shelves of patience.
Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then lies the answer?
In choice.
Which shall it be:
Bankruptcy of Purse
or Bankruptcy of Life?

Sterling Hayden

#3. As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Anthony Burgess

#4. The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

#5. A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

#6. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Joseph Addison

#7. If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Matthew Simpson

#8. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.

Robert Elias

#11. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

#12. It will finally be broadcast on the national news, to outrage, and to an instant forgetting.

Teju Cole

#13. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.

Darlene Zschech

#14. The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Cornel West

#15. Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Joe Flanigan

#16. Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#17. And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking.

Stephen King

#18. I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Alexander Payne

#19. After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

Anthony Liccione

#20. 'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Moby

#21. Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

Nick Hanauer

#22. It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

Antony Gormley

#23. And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.

Robyn Davidson

#24. That ought to make his face, or the sound of his voice, more precious to her mind, but strangely, this wasn't so. What was left in his absence was an empty, sorrowful discomfort. She wondered if it wouldn't eventually grow dull or dim if she worried at it enough, or softened and more

Cherie Priest

#25. Being comfortable in your own skin is the spirit of rock-and-roll and, really, the spirit of cool.

A.D. Aliwat

#26. When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.

David Jeremiah

#27. Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.

Patrick Rothfuss

#28. Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees.

William Johnson Cory