A Quote by Jodi Picoult

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
American - Author
Born: May 19, 1966

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

Brian Fitzgerald

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

Tennessee Williams

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Carl Jung

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Kathleen Norris

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Peter Drucker

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

June Allyson

I think that what's happened is that there's been a rediscovery of some good old-school films and a realization that there's always a place for them. We don't have to outgrow them with the new technology and we can do them with it and we can do them without it. We shouldn't always have the demands made on us to do it.

Robert Englund

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Franz Grillparzer

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.