Growing Quotes

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.