Growing Quotes

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.

In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

We are happy when we are growing.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.

For me growing up, I've found that I don't really go out and party and I don't hang out - when I come home and I'm home, I'm a pretty chilled person.