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“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
Casey Stengel
“I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”
Tom Robbins
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
Joseph Heller
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