Bryant H. McGill Quotes

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

People have to evolve.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I look after people.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

It's not enough to keep people in a static condition. We've got to give them lift.

People do change.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

In real life, we think people don't change, but they do. People do change in profound ways with all the different major things that happen in their lives.

I think I will never stop having mentors.

My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up.