Growing Quotes

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

That world is growing in this minute.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

I think everyone keeps on growing. I've grown about 0.0000001 mm?

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.

Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.

A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.