I Outgrow You Quotes

#1. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

Irving Townsend

#3. What will happen between you and I, Ella? You will still want the normal life you have been fighting for, and I will be an ageless accessory in your life you will soon outgrow.

Inger Iversen

#4. We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

John Lancaster Spalding

#5. Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?"
"I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

Lemony Snicket

#6. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Jodi Picoult

#7. These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

Tennessee Williams

#8. The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Norman Cousins

#9. You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.

S.E. Hinton

#10. Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

#11. Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Isabel Allende

#12. Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk.

Akash Lakhotia

#13. Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

Jodi Picoult

#14. As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

Dallas Willard

#15. I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#16. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

#17. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...

Edna O'Brien

#18. Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

Stan Lee