Growing Quotes

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

Growing old is not growing up.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

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

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

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

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

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged adding to healthier open rates and ROI.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.