Growing Quotes

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.

The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.

I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.