Growing Quotes

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

The higher purpose of #‎ astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

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.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward.

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.