Growing Tall Sayings

#1. If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

Barry Louis Polisar

#2. But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

John Ashbery

#3. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. I only think about you. The black abyss inside my head is obliterated by your light. I'm too absorbed in your tight body and swollen lips. You chase away my demons.

K. Webster

#5. Dahlia felt the cabin was growing smaller with each introduction. Each man stood tall with wide shoulders and bulky muscles. She felt ridiculous standing near them.

Christine Feehan

#6. You could be doing a million butt lifts, but your butt is not going to get any bigger because there is nothing to build on. Your body needs food to make that happen.

Erin Heatherton

#7. I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#8. The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Sara Coleridge

#9. I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Kevin Hart

#10. Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing
Clover hills,
Remember me?
Sister, child,
Grown tall,
Remember me?
I remember you.

Gail Carson Levine

#11. The Snake in the fence is now inside the lungi

Sidin Vadukut

#12. Even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy.

Janet Evanovich

#13. money? It would be difficult.

John Grisham

#14. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly,

Kate Atkinson

#15. The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

Gloria Steinem

#16. I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

Jordin Sparks

#17. The older I get, Mr. Lapine, the more I realize it's sometimes preferable not knowing the answers to things. In fact, I often wish I'd never heard the question.

Tracy Guzeman

#18. When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status

Bryan Chapell

#20. Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

Walter Dean Myers

#21. Not for all the little plastic toys in China," said Wednesday,

Neil Gaiman

#22. My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'

King Krule

#23. Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall.

Catherynne M Valente

#24. I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Lawrence Fagg

#25. I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

Jerry Hall

#26. She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years.

Hugh Howey

#27. In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

Vera Nazarian

#28. Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:
"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."
One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

Magic Johnson