Growing Quotes

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

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

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

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.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.