If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
A fetus is no more a human than an acorn is a tree.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
Weening is not measure.
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
From the egg to the apple.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.
A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.
Well...like, when you're born, you're a little baby, you're wrinkly and stuff, when you get older you sort of morph into a baby again.
Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.
Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.
Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.
