Growing Quotes

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

The Cadillac Escalade is the perfect vehicle for a pimp with a growing family.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

Growing a moustache wouldn't really coordinate with the group dynamics.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

No-one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.