Growing Quotes
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.
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.
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.
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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.
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.
I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.
I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.
When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.
In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
