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- In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath
- No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
- It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. - Benjamin Johnson
- What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 2
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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