Growing Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

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

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Growing old is not growing up.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop.

Growing older doesnt bother me.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.