Growing Quotes

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the south side of Chicago will make you pretty resilient.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

My goal is to never stop growing.

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.

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

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.

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

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

I'm growing as a person, so everything around me is changing.

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.