Growing Quotes

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.

I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

I was a cheerleader growing up, so I can relate to that!

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.