Growing Quotes

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Love is everlasting, ever growing, and ever giving if you allow it.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

I loved scary movies growing up.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.

My goal is to never stop growing.

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.