#grows

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. ↗

— Betty Smith

#opening-lines #beauty

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#direct #direct proportion #expectations #grows #happiness

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#extremely #grass #grows #horse #man

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. ↗

— George Villiers

#dead #fame #grows #hair #just

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#grows #ignorance #island #knowledge #live

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ↗

— Tad Williams

#afraid #every #every time #fear #found

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. ↗

— Zane Grey

#grows #love #more #multiply #poignant

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#every man #genius #grows #into #man

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#end #every #faces #friend #grows

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#america #because #care #child #child care