Growing Quotes

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

When you grow up, your heart dies.