Growing Quotes

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

Its crazy! I'm watching Linsanity hoping every shot goes in. Hope I never grow up.

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing

All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves." I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

Oh I don’t wanna grow up, wish I’d never grown up It could still be simple.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

My brothers and sister have all achieved so much in their lives and achieved so much success. But I'm growing and learning, I have a strong head on my shoulders.

As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.