Growing Quotes

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

We don't have a manufacturing base. We don't have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

Growing up as a comedian, the first thing you dream of is having your own album, but even more than that, I always wanted that hour special on cable.

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up. Vogue, what is that?

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

The fastest growing political party is no party.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

When I'm asked what my girls will think when they grow up, I'll tell them that they have to keep their clothes on till they're 40. But when they're 40, they can make their own decisions.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive.

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.