Growing Quotes

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

When people have children, they have to grow up!

Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

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

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.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

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.

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

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.

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.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing.