Growing Quotes

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.

Here's to Never Growing up

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.

I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.