Growing

Famous quotes containing the word growing:

    They dance with reluctance, they are growing civilized; the old men
    persuade them.
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station . . . if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their woman.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it’s motives.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)