The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
John Berger

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.
Donald Pleasence

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Milton Glaser

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
John Jay Chapman

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
Earl Browder

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
Clara Schumann

The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
Ogden Nash

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Yehudi Menuhin

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Owen Chamberlain

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Alexander Smith

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Francis Beaumont

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
J. G. Holland

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
Barry Cornwall

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle