Growing Quotes

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

How do you stop somebody from growing?

We like to believe our fashion is growing.

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

I really didn't grow up with a lot of Superman stuff.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.