Growing Quotes

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

I was a young lad when I was growing up.

The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.