What do you have to give before you can keep it?

What can you break without touching it?

What is so fragile that sound can destroy it?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

What's always coming but yet never arrives?

What goes up but never comes down?

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

What grows down while it grows up?

When I was born I was big but the older I get the smaller I am. What am I?