Growing Quotes

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.