Growing Quotes

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

I wouldn't say hate, exactly. You're kind of like fungus, Gwen. After a while, you just start growing on people.

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.