Growth
} Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be:
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Famous quotes containing the word growth:
“When I have plucked the rose,
I cannot give it vital growth again,
It needs must wither. Ill smell it on the tree.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A mans growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)