Top 37 Growing Wise Quotes
#1. I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing
yes,
I'm growing old.
John Godfrey Saxe
#2. It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity.
John Le Carre
#3. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.
let yourself break.
AVA.
#4. Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.
Munia Khan
#5. Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
Jacob Artist
#6. All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.
John R. Rice
#7. We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.
Nick Robinson
#8. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. Tompkins
#9. The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
Erik Qualman
#10. If we're going to die horribly, we're all going to do it together.
Mira Grant
#11. Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?
Jack Kerouac
#12. And I know I won't get the story out of Zu, not the full one, anyway. That's okay. We're allowed to have our secrets. Starting now, I'm leaving the past alone in the past.
Alexandra Bracken
#13. A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?
Echo Bodine
#14. Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.
Peter Senge
#15. The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.
Ashton Applewhite
#16. Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.
Ricky Maye
#17. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Luther Standing Bear
#18. It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that I am with you. Always. Forever. We don't have to be separated by the sun, school, or even the night. Now I'm just a click away." ~Alexander
Ellen Schreiber
#20. The seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
Orson Scott Card
#21. Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.'
Well, here I come.
Laird Hunt
#22. If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#24. There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
Steve Buscemi
#25. In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
Amish Tripathi
#26. My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Patrick Dempsey
#28. The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.
Cynthia Heimel
#30. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
#31. I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
Tinie Tempah
#32. My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.
Guus Hiddink
#33. This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise
#34. Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan
#35. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.
L. Frank Baum
#37. I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
Pete Seeger
