We Grow Apart Quotes

#1. A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

Bill Crawford

#2. Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Mariella Frostrup

#4. How quickly they grow apart, when there is something to be superior about.

Seanan McGuire

#5. ...all teenagers do this. All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart.

Nicola Yoon

#6. I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)

Tracy Letts

#7. I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Seasons change, people grow together and apart, life moves on. You will be OK, embrace it.

Alexandra Elle

#10. When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

Lissa Rankin

#11. If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.

Bill Bryson

#12. People grow; people grow apart, and cancer ... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Justin Baldoni

#13. There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Suzi Quatro

#14. Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

C.S. Lewis

#15. I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

Jessica Simpson

#16. But I've learned that sometimes, somehow, no matter how much time we spend apart from the ones we care most about, our love for them never fades, for time apart only makes our love grow stronger.

Rebecah McManus

#17. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Emily Giffin

#18. Like an unprotected photograph
some friendships fade.
People grow apart, lose touch,
want different things.
Dreams, woven together,
unravel.

Kimberly Marcus

#19. I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

Joaquin Phoenix

#20. That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy ... Just holier-than-thous.

Jodi Picoult

#21. Feed your creative mind.
Feed your joyful, selfless heart.
Feed your soul to grow.
Feed with books, music, painting or arts,
Feed with your special favorite passion
you joyfully share near or far apart.

Angelica Hopes

#22. They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

Zadie Smith

#23. People change,feelings change, but that doesn't mean that the love once shared wasn't true and real. It simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart

Scott Neustadter

#24. Sometimes friends grow apart. You tell each other everything and you're sure this is a person you'll know the rest of your life but then she stops writing or calling, or you realize she's really not so nice, or she turns into a right-winger.

Anita Diamant

#25. Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.

Hans Vestberg

#26. It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.

K.M. Soehnlein

#27. Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They'd grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she'd been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.

Sherry Thomas

#28. I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart ... " That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy," Shay said. "Just holier-than-thou.

Jodi Picoult

#29. I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

Crystal Bowersox

#30. Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart.

Toni Sorenson

#31. If you had ever known love, you'd know this. Nothing can force love to go away. You grow apart, or grow up, but it's still there. You still care what happens to them,

Amelia Hutchins

#32. If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

Jonathan Kozol

#33. Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

C. Everett Koop

#34. Two people in a relationship either grow together or apart over time.

Greg Behrendt

#35. To grow up is to grow apart.

Nicola Yoon

#36. Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

Tony Dungy

#37. Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them? ... Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

#38. When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow ... and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

Ian Curtis

#39. You can grow apart from people very quickly.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#40. People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

Jay Asher

#41. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

#42. It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

Courteney Cox

#43. They'd grown apart. Well, hell - at least that meant they were still capable of growing. If they could still grow, then maybe they could grow back together.

Robin Wells

#44. There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

Pope Benedict XVI

#45. Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

Nicholas Sparks

#46. Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

Audre Lorde