Growing Quotes

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

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

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 each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

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

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

My mom, who gave me my confidence growing up. She's the one that always told me that I could be great and to never stop. And myself. Because I came such a long way.

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat...It's about continually growing.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.