I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
~By Alf Landon ~
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
~By John Hume ~
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
~By Linda McCartney ~
Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
~By Amanda Bynes ~
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
~By Mary H. Waldrip ~
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
~By Mike Ferguson ~
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
~By Kim Weston ~
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
~By Sonia Gandhi ~
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
~By Julian Assange ~
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
~By Max Lerner ~
Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.
~By Greg Walden ~
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
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.
~By Jill Scott ~
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
~By George Carey ~
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
~By Ron Lewis ~
My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
~By David Crane ~
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
~By Andre Maurois ~
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.
~By Niki Taylor ~
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~By Chili Davis ~
Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
~By Anne Northup ~
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
~By Dana Plato ~
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
~By Robert Patterson ~
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.
~By Eydie Gorme ~
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
~By George Michael ~
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
~By Jon Porter ~
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
~By James Tobin ~
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
~By Moira Kelly ~
The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
~By William Taylor ~
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
~By Debra Wilson ~
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.
~By John Olver ~
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
~By Stockard Channing ~
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
~By Roland Gift ~
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.
~By Roy Haynes ~
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
~By Melinda Gates ~
Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
~By Yvonne Craig ~
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
~By Juliet Mills ~
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
~By Liza Minelli ~
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
~By Tina Turner ~
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.
~By Bill Lipinski ~
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
~By Brandon Routh ~
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
~By Deryck Whibley ~
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.
~By Jon Fishman ~
We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.
~By Ron Lewis ~
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
~By Nick Johnson ~
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.
~By Sean Paul ~
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
A man growing old becomes a child again.
~By Sophocles ~
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
~By Fred Rogers ~
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
~By Winona Ryder ~
I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.
~By David Morse ~
The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
~By Robert Jackson ~
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
~By Ed Bradley ~
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.
~By Halle Berry ~
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
~By Ray Kroc ~
Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
~By Natalie Wood ~
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
~By Alice Munro ~
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
~By Courtney Love ~
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