Growing Quotes

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.