#grown

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. ↗

— John Sharp Williams

#bad government #convinces #government #grown #history

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#grownups #pretty #beauty

Grown men do not need leaders. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#grown men #leaders #men #need

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#changed #different #enormously #fundamentally #grown

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up! ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#also #being #good #grew #grown

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#gardening #grown #i #just #like

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#changed #grown #i #into #just

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#aspects #background #cast #characters #clone

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#had #i #now #training #value

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#damned #day #discover #grown #might