Growing Quotes

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.

Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued, and the fourth one should be crazy.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Sports are fundamental for growing in a healthy way: they represent fair competition, strength, and exercise, which enhance the body's healthy balance and strengthen the mind.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

There's a black rose growing in your garden.