grow quotes

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

-William Blake
  Songs of Experience,'A Poison Tree'.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

- George Herbert
'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

   Whenyouareskinning yourcustomers,youshould leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again.

- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  Speech to British industrialists, May.

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

- Dudley Randall
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

   O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 3.

Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

-Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus
Apologeticus, ch.50, section13.The phrase is often quoted as 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.'

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

- Robert Penn Warren
  In the NewYorkTimes,12 May.

The fact that you don't buy a teenager new clothes doesn't mean he isn't going to grow.

- George Malcolm White
  On the need for a fourth Senate office building. In Connoisseur, Apr.