Growing Quotes

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.

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

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Life is about growing, but it's also about making peace with who you are.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

All children, except one, grow up.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I was a handful growing up.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.