Grow

Famous quotes containing the word grow:

“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)