Accretion quotes:

Send

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. -- Jonas Salk
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. -- Walt Whitman
As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying. -- James Fallows
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. -- George Saunders
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units. -- Thomas Hardy
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. -- Tennessee Williams
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it. -- Caroline Llewellyn
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. -- Elihu Burritt

Send