It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
Faye Dunaway

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.
Brian Austin Green

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
John Acton

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Samuel Daniel

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee