Growing Quotes

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

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.

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.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

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.

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.

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 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.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

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.

Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

There were moments growing up where I felt beautiful, but I truly didn't feel beautiful all of the time until I became a mom. It really allowed me to realize no one is perfect.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

I'm totally growing up.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.