Growing Quotes

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

I was a total bad girl growing up.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.