Growing Quotes

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

A library is a growing organism.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.