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 ~
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 ~
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
~By John Dos Passos ~
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
~By Carl Wilson ~
The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
~By Luke Wilson ~
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
~By Jock Sturges ~
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
~By Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi ~
If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
~By Herschel Walker ~
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
~By Judith Guest ~
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
~By David Friedman ~
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
~By Robert Henri ~
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 ~
I never listened to country music growing up.
~By Deana Carter ~
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
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 ~
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
~By Eugenie Clark ~
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
~By Salvador Dali ~
I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
~By Herman Cain ~
Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
~By Roy Clark ~
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~By Thom Gunn ~
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.
~By Graham Nelson ~
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 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.
~By Richard Wagner ~
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 ~
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
~By Lance Burton ~
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.
~By Alice Cooper ~
Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.
~By Judy Biggert ~
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
~By Kelly Miller ~
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
~By Robert Palmer ~
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 ~
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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 ~
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
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 ~
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
~By Bob Taft ~
When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.
~By Benny Green ~
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
~By John Cale ~
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
~By Pete Hamill ~
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.
~By Shiri Appleby ~
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
~By Henri Matisse ~
I was a handful growing up.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
~By Allen Iverson ~
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
~By Clarence Clemons ~
A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
Growing old is not growing up.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
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 ~
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
~By Neil Jordan ~
Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
~By Erik Estrada ~
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.
~By Bernie Ebbers ~
The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
~By Robert Jackson ~
Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?
~By Jenna Elfman ~
To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
~By Anna Lindh ~
In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.
~By Jim Ryun ~
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
~By Dudley North ~
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
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 ~
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
~By Ed Smith ~
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 ~
I guess I'm growing up in the film world.
~By Devon Sawa ~
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
~By Hugh Mackay ~
We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
~By Ronald Ross ~
Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
~By Pat Robertson ~
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
~By George MacDonald ~
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
~By Jim Walsh ~
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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 ~
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
~By Deryck Whibley ~
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
~By Geezer Butler ~
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
~By Kenny Rogers ~
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 ~
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up.
~By Ben Quayle ~
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
~By Donnie Yen ~
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
~By DeForest Soaries ~
I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
~By Megan Fox ~
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 on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
~By Mike Johanns ~
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 ~
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
~By Salvador Dali ~
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
~By Enya ~
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
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