Growing Quotes

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

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

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.