Growing Quotes

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?" "Princess," Diana said. "So, you got a promotion," Caine said.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to be in a growing economy.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.

Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

I want to get America's private sector growing and I know how to do it.

I'm optimistic about the future. I'm excited about our prospects as a nation. I want to see peace. I want to see growing peace in America. It's our objective.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.