My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
I don’t want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
The desire to write grows with writing.
‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn’t have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it’s such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it’s a beautiful story.
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn’t double – it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don’t really give them anything.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions – including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There’s nothing to say that we couldn’t release a song that belongs on ‘The Stage’ 20 years into our career. We want it to be an album that constantly grows with what we want to do, and that’s what we did.
A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.
There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
I think what is nice about ‘Elf,’ and why it doesn’t play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It’s not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It’s a story. I’m pretty proud of how we told it.
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
I think the conversation about sex is one that never grows old and is one that people are always drawn to.
Bush the Elder’s stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I’ve ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Money is like manure: if you don’t spread it around, nothing grows.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood – not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
As the nation’s elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
‘Betrayed’ starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane’s feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it’s getting so much better as my confidence grows and that’s thanks to the position I’m now in, which is totally due to my fans.
I’ll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist’s office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
Even though I’m often crazy – and I am, and I know it – still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak… nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
I can’t obsess, I can’t become somebody who grows old disgracefully, I’m not one of those people that tries to pin back the hands of time.
Everyone has their awkward phase. I think everything passes, and that is key to remember – none of us looked like this when we were younger… Everybody grows into themselves, and you learn about yourself.
Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we’ll still have cancer, but we’ll detect it very, very early, so that it won’t kill anybody. We’ll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor.
It’s a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it’s Northern Ireland.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it attracts and the ingredients it grows. There are plenty of other places in the world with wonderful natural resources, but the people who come here to pursue their passions for food and cooking – they are one of a kind.
Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.
My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indiana Jones, Batman and Jack Sparrow. Yes, all three at the same time. So he basically wants to be an archaeologist who wears tights and fights crimes on pirate ships. That’s pretty cool, huh?
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas – stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.
Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.
‘What will people say?’ is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
