Growing Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Growing

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My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
~By Tom Hanks ~


Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
~By Maria Mitchell ~


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 ~


President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
~By Tom Daschle ~


We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
~By Ted Turner ~


One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
~By Philip Pullman ~


Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
~By Gary Oldman ~


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 ~


Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~


You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
~By Geoff Davis ~


Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.
~By Ron Lewis ~


Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
~By John Cale ~


Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~


When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
~By Tom Hooper ~


I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
~By Henri Matisse ~


I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~


A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~


When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~


But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.
~By Timothy Geithner ~


But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
~By Tobias Wolff ~


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 ~


Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
~By Joseph Needham ~


Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
~By Cameron Diaz ~


I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.
~By Jon Crosby ~


When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
~By Deryck Whibley ~


Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
~By Liza Minelli ~


I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
~By Bob Balaban ~


The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~


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 ~


Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~


I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~


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 ~


To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
~By David Frum ~


The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
~By Ben Folds ~


We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.
~By Donna Shalala ~


When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
~By Alison Moyet ~


I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.
~By Will Estes ~


For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
~By Jeff Bridges ~


When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
~By Rory Bremner ~


Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
~By Benny Hinn ~


So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
~By Polly Toynbee ~


I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
~By Robert Blake ~


More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~


Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
~By David Bohm ~


With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
~By Neil Young ~


We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.
~By Jon Porter ~


Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
~By LeBron James ~


Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.
~By Marc Garneau ~


Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.
~By Herschel Walker ~


You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~


As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.
~By Ron Francis ~


What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~


The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
~By Jane D. Hull ~


The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~


Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
~By Anthony Powell ~


Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
~By Charles Rangel ~


I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~


We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.
~By Bernie Ebbers ~


You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
~By Kirstie Alley ~


My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~


I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
~By Magnus Magnusson ~


The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
~By Geezer Butler ~


I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
~By Hugh Dancy ~


I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
~By Sally Quinn ~


You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~


The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
~By Cobi Jones ~


I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
~By William Petersen ~


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 ~


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~By Chili Davis ~


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 ~


I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
~By Herb Ritts ~


But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
~By Anna Neagle ~


Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~


The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~


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 ~


Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~


Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
~By Ed Rendell ~


One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
~By Carl Jung ~


To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~


Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
~By Debra Wilson ~


I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
~By Larry Dixon ~


The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.
~By John Bruton ~


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 ~


A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
~By James Thomas Fields ~


We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
~By Peter MacKay ~


I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~


When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
~By Dorothy Allison ~


I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
~By Sabrina Lloyd ~


I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
~By Emily Mortimer ~


Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
~By Judd Nelson ~


Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~


It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
~By Calista Flockhart ~


As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
~By Taryn Manning ~


It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
~By Fran Drescher ~


I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
~By Herman Cain ~


Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
~By Gale Norton ~


People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~


So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
~By Ed Smith ~


When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~


I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.
~By Scott Foley ~

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December 6 ,2023
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