Best turns & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”

People Knows May Purpose Turns Grows Answers Stage Talent Criticism Crowds Hearing Rejection Bullying Weary

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”

Turns Passion Grows Cold Hot Insult Contempt Apathy Lukewarm Extremity Romantic Relationship

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.”

Home Turns Grows Walks Moon Shadow Evening Foam Turn Me

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.”

Thinking Ends Motivational Turns Culture Grows Growing Up Terrible Terrible Things Something Better Setback

Book:I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

Source: I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

“Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.”

World Stills Reality Turns Grows Causes Space Consciousness Rich Greater Aspect Empty Connections Contact Mysterious Encounters Association Inward Unified

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.”

“I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.”

Men World Should Country Shows Hands Turns Grows Fields He Man British Nails Sovereign Propose Defence Animated Matched Valour

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.”

Heart Kind Doe Turns Grows Grief Rain Warm Snow Weather Ice Settling Stomach Candle Thick Lungs Temperature Mist Frost Liver Beacons Lighthouse Arteries Bowels Humidity

Book:Nocturne: A Play

Source: Nocturne: A Play

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

Giving Sometimes Character Stories Turns Grows Walks Birth Hero Familiar Bridges Twists Here And There Twists And Turns

Book:Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

Source: Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

“All of our presidents come into office looking so vigorous ... They grow grayer and grayer, and by the time they leave, they’re as white as the building they live in ... I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.”

Years Bigs Turns House Grows President White Building Hair Office Advantage White House Vigorous

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.”

Turns Grows Imagine Imagine That Corn Conceit Mills

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.”

Way Mind Believe Ideas Happens Young Turns Stars Grows Generations Possibility Youth Bears Balance One Way Ridicule Impossibility Unconquerable

Author:Isak Dinesen

“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”

Art Artist Turns Grows Chance Media Movement Degrees Destructive Ashes Exhausted Publicity Obscurity Short Time Saturation

Author:Joyce Johnson

“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.”

Men Firsts Bigs Happens Running Able Earth Turns Grows Sports Break Baby Legs Limitation Flats Sailing Breaking Down Marathon Mustache Running Marathon

Author:Kathrine Switzer

“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”

Way Trying Mind May Littles Hard Turns Grows Parent Cases Growing Up Bother Always Wrong Pests

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

Light Eye Turns Grows Dark Accepting Sun Clear Shining Seeds Passing Passings Triumph Wheels Decline Sail Sun Set Clear Eyes

Author:Starhawk

“Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.”

Humans Two Ideas Turns Grows Human Beings Loss Gone Path Magic Gold Tragedy Stronger Wiser Alchemy Entry Two Paths

Author:Jillian Michaels

“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source: Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”

Men Mother Turns Grows Growing Up Trouble

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.”

People Knows Trying Stills Whole Care Kids Turns Grows Process Parent Effort Growing Up Grew Healthy Skills Normal Grew Up Tolerance Despite Awful Helpful Strongest Imperfect Psychotic

Author:Frank Pittman

“It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.”

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