“The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.”

“Very few people grow up. Most people grow older but growing up is challenging. Many people get older honor their credit cards matriculate into and graduate out of schools get married and have children. They call that growing up maturing. It's not. It is simply growing old - Maya Angelo”

“I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned”

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

“Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.”

“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge.”