Growing Quotes

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.

Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

You stop growing when you stop listening.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.